Put "Error:" before error output

[Simon Peyton Jones]

There has been quite a long email trail about this. Would someone like to summarise in a Trac ticket feature request?

Assuming there's a consensus, would anyone like to offer a patch?  Should not hard.

There will be an annoying cutover problem, because many regression tests will start failing.  Anyone offering the patch would need to include all of those.  Of course it'll affect other packages too -- hence the need for consensus.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Sven
| Panne
| Sent: 25 January 2015 11:28
| To: Konstantine Rybnikov
| Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Put "Error:" before error output
| 
| 2015-01-23 12:55 GMT+01:00 Konstantine Rybnikov <k-bx at k-bx.com>:
| > If warnings will be treated as errors it's fine to have "Error:" shown
| for
| > them, I think.
| 
| +1 for this, it is how e.g. gcc behaves with -Werror, too. So unless
| there is a compelling reason to do things differently (which I don't
| see here), I would just follow conventional behavior instead of being
| creative. :-)
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