[ghc-steering-committee] Fine-Grained Unused Warnings (#343)

[Malte Ott]

Dear all,

this proposal is great. I added a few comments about details on GitHub.

Best
Malte

On 2024-03-12 16:38, Chris Dornan wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> 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 controls the latter with the new flag -Windirectly-unused-binds, which is enabled by default (to preserve existing behaviour).
> 
> Everybody seems to be in favour of the proposal in general and it has been extensively revised for clarity and to ensure in interoperates consistently with the existing warning-flags mechanisms.
> 
> I propose that we accept this proposal if nobody objects by the start of next week (Monday, 2024-03-18).
> 
> Chris

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