"Neil Mitchell"
Anyone want the -underscore flag to stick around, and not just be the default which can't be turned off?
It depends whether you want to claim Haskell'98 compatibility or not. Haskell-prime is likely to make yhc's default behaviour with underscores the new standard however.
For that matter: Compliance Options: -underscore Enable H'98 underscore-is-lower-case (default=off) -puns Enable pre-98 named-field puns (default=on) -98 Haskell 98 compliance (default=off)
Why is -98 off, why is -puns on (what are puns!!!) and lets kill this -underscore option. The n+k option died, others deserve to die too :)
The option -98 is just a collective switch to say -underscore -nopuns in a shorter way. It is off by default because of user demand. Named field puns were a feature of Haskell-1.3 that went away in Haskell'98, but some users liked them and campaigned for their reinstatement. Regards, Malcolm