special handling of "Main.hs" contradicts Report

[Ross Paterson]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:51:55AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> [Mark Tullsen <mtullsen at cse.ogi.edu> writes:]
> >   The report leads one to believe "module Main where ..."  
> > should export
> >   all top-level entitities just the same as if we were 
> > defining a module by another name. 
> 
> Yes, we're aware this is a bug (see my first message in this thread).
> However, I think we're going to declare it as a known
> divergence from the report, for two reasons: 
> 
>   - It's highly unlikely that you need to import Main, so
>     you'll never notice the difference.  If you *do* need more
>     exports from Main, then write 'module Main(module Main) where'.

I expect it would be confusing for GHCi users.

>   - interpreting 'module Main where' as 'module Main(main) where'
>     leads to more efficient code (we have lots of examples
>     that do this, I believe).

How about just suggesting that users write 'module Main(main) where'
to get more efficient code?