filename suffixes

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Sounds like a handy generalisation & something I've wished
for a couple of times. Feel free to commit away
(or do you want me to apply the patches below?)

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross Paterson" <ross@soi.city.ac.uk>
To: <cvs-hugs@haskell.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 07:36
Subject: filename suffixes


> I have a Hugs patch that I'd like to get in, if possible.
> 
> It makes the set of suffixes for Haskell modules user-configurable
> via a -S option, analogous to -P for search paths.  For example, with
> the invocation
> 
> hugs -S:.y:.ly
> 
> the suffix list becomes .hs:.lhs:.y:.ly and when importing a module
> Foo it tries Foo.hs, Foo.lhs, Foo.y and Foo.ly.  I find it useful in
> conjunction with the preprocessor option: the preprocessor can use the
> suffix to decide how to turn the file into Haskell.  Perhaps there are
> other uses.  The patch is at:
> 
> http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ross/hugs-patch
> 
> It's fairly long, but the last half is all repetition.
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