Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> writes:
> What pragma syntax should other Haskell compilers use? I don't think it's
> fair for GHC to have exclusive rights to the pragma syntax form the report,
> and other compilers should not be relegated to using {-# X-FOOHC ... #-}.
> But now we have all the same issues again.
>
In my mind other compilers are of course free to use the {-# ... #-}
syntax has they see fit and GHC has no other choice but to accommodate.
Arguably the report should have just specified that the {-# ... #-}
syntax as namespaced, avoiding this whole situation.In the case of tools we have the opportunity to correct this mistake since no strong convention has established itself yet. This is what I am advocating that we do. Cheers, - Ben
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