[ghc-steering-committee] Fine-Grained Unused Warnings (#42)

[Arnaud Spiwack]

I noticed that the default value of the flag is unspecified (I believe that
the flag should be on by default, as deactivating transitively unused
bindings is pretty situational in my opinion; we may even decide to accept
the proposal but without the flag, though I have a feeling that the author
wouldn't be willing to implement the flagless version). I made a comment to
that effect on Github.

The rest of the proposal looks good to me.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 11:59, Chris Dornan <chris at chrisdornan.com> wrote:

> Proposal: Fine-Grained Unused Warnings (#42)
> Author: Jakob Brünker
> Rendered proposal:
> https://github.com/JakobBruenker/ghc-proposals/blob/fine-grained-unused/proposals/0000-fine-grained-unused-warnings.rst
> Discussion: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/434
> Recommendation: Acceptance
>
> ## Summary
>
> The proposal partitions warning about unused identifiers into
>
> a) bindings that are truly unused (not mentioned anywhere) and
> b) bindings that are mentioned exclusively in code that is itself
> (transitively) unused,
>
> and suppresses the latter unless the -freport-indirectly-unused-bindings
> flag is specified.
>
> The proposal is concise with some well-chosen examples and I recommend
> everyone at least skim it.
>
> I propose        that we accept this proposal if nobody objects by the
> start of next week (Monday, 2024-02-19).
>
> Chris
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Arnaud Spiwack
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