Let's play Name That Extension!

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Sat Mar 31 02:10:27 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 20:41 -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> A large number of the newer GHC extensions have no cabal name.  This
> is a very bad situation because if Hugs/yhc/etc were to gain support
> for (say) GADTs, it would not be possible to run cabal programs that
> require them, since the way programs specify dependency is with
> -fglasgow-exts.  Also, what is the protocol for requesting cabal
> extension names?

You could do worse than to make up a sensible name and darcs send in
your patch to the Language.Haskell.Extension module to this list.

Duncan



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