On Nov 13, 2007, at 13:32 , Dan Piponi wrote:
On Nov 13, 2007 3:00 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Dan, can you suggest any words we could add to the documentation that would have prevented you stumbling?I guess the thing that would have helped best would have been an error message like "'x' not in scope, use -fforce-recomp to see all symbols" when running interactively in ghci with a previously compiled top level module.
FWIW, I'm thinking the right thing to do is -fforce-recomp explicitly loaded (:l) modules by default, with documentation specifying to -fno- force-recomp if you don't want that for some reason. If you're using ghci, most of the time you *don't* want the normal ghc symbol behavior.
(The above would still be useful, if you then switched to a module pulled in by the explicitly loaaded one and tried to work with a non- exported symbol. I do that a fair bit when developing/debugging.)
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