On 2014-06-17 at 16:24:16 +0200, Richard Eisenberg wrote: [...]
In any case, it's a bit of a hoop for novices to jump through, especially if they aren't being guided by a teacher.
I tend to agree that taxing the large quantity of experienced users for the benefit of novices is wrong-headed. But, I still think we need a nice, simple story to get new folks off the ground. Haskell prides itself on its beauty, and requiring several obscure and (at first) inscrutable command line flags to get decent error messages for a novice is not beautiful.
Fwiw, something related was brought up by John Meacham at http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2014-June/025047.html Or maybe one could do something similiar to what was done with /usr/bin/c99, i.e. provide a '/usr/bin/hc2010' (or ghc2010) wrapper for ghc, that would by default force Haskell2010 mode and pull the 'haskell2010' pkg into scope while hiding 'base'