Proposals for changes to searching behaviour

nilsson@cs.yale.edu nilsson@cs.yale.edu
Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:10:21 -0500


Hi,

>    I'm not sure what syntax we'd use for this.  Henrik suggested
>    placing the module prefix in square brackets before the directory,
>    eg.
>          ghc -i '-i[Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL].'
>    
>    In contrast to the previous suggestion, this would actually save
>    some trips to the OS when GHC is looking for files.

Actually, I suggested putting it *after*. But putting it before might
be quite nice, actually. So credit where credit is due!

/Henrik

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Henrik Nilsson
Yale University
Department of Computer Science
nilsson@cs.yale.edu