Suppose there are three modules, all defining 'main':
A.main, B.main, C.main. Which is to be treated as 'the' main?
And if the module shouldn't be called 'Main' why should the value
be called 'main'? Maybe you want
ghc *.o -main A.wibble
to treat A.wibble as the main function. But then it would
be hard to check that A.wibble had the correct type.
One could also specify that option when compiling A, I suppose
ghc A.hs -main wibble
to say 'treat A.wibble' as main.
Simon
> More seriously, C (I believe) established the convention of a main
> routine named "main", but did not require that it be defined in a
> file named "main.c". (The file name is the closest analogue to our
> module name in classic C.) A Java application must have a method
> named "main", but the class name is not restricted.
>
> Cheers,
> --Joe
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