Sven Panne <svenpa...@gmail.com> writes: > 2016-02-16 10:56 GMT+01:00 Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvrie...@gmail.com>: > >> [...] but `sig(nature)s` has a precedent, so using `-sigs` wouldn't >> introduce anything new. >> > > I'm fine with "sigs", my point was only the fact that non-abbreviated words > seem to be much more common in the flags names (and are easier to > remember). IMHO it doesn't really matter if the flag names are long: One > probably doesn't type them on the command line often, they typically live > in .cabal files, .travis.yml and pragmas where you type them once. > > Well... the -Wnoncanonical-*-instances flag family was the best I could >> come up with which is reasonably self-descriptive... do you have any >> better suggestions? >> > > No, and I actually like the long names, see above. :-)
I don't have an opinion here. Especially with tab completion these names are rarely typed anyways. >> Fwiw, `ghc --show-options | grep binding` come ups empty >> > > Then the docs are out-of-sync: > http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/master/users-guide/using-warnings.html#ghc-flag--Wlazy-unlifted-bindings Indeed it appears that this warning was supposed to be removed in 7.10. I've gone ahead and finished this in https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1922 Cheers, - Ben
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