[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal: accept "add incomplete-uni-patterns and incomplete-record-updates to -Wall"

Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatchki at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 21:16:11 UTC 2018


I agree that we should accept #71

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 2:24 AM Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I propose that we accept the proposal
>
>   add incomplete-uni-patterns and incomplete-record-updates to -Wall
>
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/71
>
> <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/71>
> Both warnings are avoidable and considered bad style, which makes them
> appropriate to include in -Wall.
>
> The reason that -Wincomplete-uni-patterns wasn't originally made part of
> -Wall was due to worries about noisiness (
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4905), but that's not a valid
> concern. -Wall is intentionally a moving target, if you want to stay
> Wall-clean you accept that new compiler releases may entail some work.
>
> Basically I think this is a no-brainer.
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
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