Why have file names with 3 components?

[Keith Wansbrough]

> This looks like a bug, but please don't change it!
> 
> If you have a file A.blah.hs containing a module A, ghc5.02 compiles it, producing A.hi and A.blah.o.

This is correct... the basename for the .hi files is the module name, not the filename.  Thus if A.blah.hs contained "module C where..." then the hi file would be C.hi.

--KW 8-)
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