[Haskell-cafe] ghc -e

[Jason Dagit]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Reid Barton <rwbarton at math.harvard.edu>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:23:35AM +1000, Tony Morris wrote:
> > Can I import a module when using ghc -e?
> >
> > e.g. ghc -e "import Control.Monad; forM [[1,2,3]] reverse"
>
> One option is to create a file "imports.hs" which contains the text
> "import Control.Monad", and then run
>
> ghc -e "forM [[1,2,3]] reverse" imports.hs
>
> I use this method in a short shell script "interact" so that I can
> apply Haskell functions to files from the command line and don't have
> to type the full qualified names of things in modules I use frequently.
>

Did you know you can put commands in $HOME/.ghci that will be loaded every
time you run ghci?

So, if you have modules that you commonly use put something like:
:m + Control.Monad

In your $HOME/.ghci file and then you can use ghci instead of this ghc -e
trick.

HTH,
Jason
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