On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Spencer Janssen
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 04:33:56PM -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote:
So with a potentially long wait until the next major release (that is, not the quick fixes for X11/GHC), does anyone mind if I were to make these header changes?
As I've said already, please don't change the module headers. If sim is broken, fix sim. Cheers, Spencer Janssen
As I said already: sim is not broken. Our conventions are broken. The headers have massive duplication, and sim is reporting the duplication exactly as it should. It makes no sense to use -- for dozens* of consecutive lines: even if the duplication doesn't bother one, it adds visual clutter and makes editing more difficult. {--} fixes all 3 problems; why not use it? I'm not asking every module author to go back and mess around with formatting, or you to apply every such patch; I'm perfectly willing to make the patches myself and push them as well. * yes, dozens. The $usage sections alone can run ~50 lines. One is 58 lines. -- gwern