[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

[Matthew Pickering]

Hello,

I have renamed it to -Wmissing-pat-syn-signatures.

Matt

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:
> Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2016-02-15 20:16 GMT+01:00 Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>:
>>
>>> Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com> writes:
>>> The reason for this is that the things missing signatures are pattern
>>> synonyms, which have their warnings controlled by -Wmissing-pat-syn-sigs
>>> [1], which is enabled in -Wall by default.
>>>
>>
>> OK, I missed that in the release notes. Two points here:
>>
>>    * The naming of the options is horrible, sometimes it's "sigs",
>> sometimes it's "signatures". I would prefer if we named them consistently
>> (probably "signatures", it's easier to search for).
>>
> Indeed, I noticed that this when looking this up for you. The
> inconsistency is quite unfortunate. Perhaps -Wmissing-pattern-signatures
> or -Wmissing-patsyn-signatures? -Wmissing-pattern-synonym-signatures is
> a bit of a mouthful.
>
>>    * Given the myriad of warning-related options, It is *extremely* hard to
>> figure out which one caused the actual warning in question. The solution to
>> this is very easy and done this way in clang/gcc (don't remember which one,
>> I'm switching quite often): Just suffix all warnings consistently with the
>> option causing it, e.g.
>>
> Indeed, this is #10752, as hvr pointed out. I'm not sure whether David
> has done anything on this yet; feel free to take a stab at implementing
> it if you have some free time.
>
> - Ben
>
>
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