GHC Poll: scope in GHCi
Simon Marlow
simonmar@microsoft.com
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:35:28 -0000
> | Does anyone have any better suggestions?
>=20
> I think any solution that leaves it transparent as to if it
> is a compiled or an interpreted module is fine.
I'm currently showing the scope in the prompt, with the modules from
which we're taking the exports only surrounded by square brackets. Eg.
[Prelude]>
Just the exports of the Prelude are in scope
[Prelude,IO]>
The exports from Prelude and IO are in scope
Main>
The whole top-level scope of module Main=20
Main[IO]>
=09
The whole top-level scope of Main, plus additionally the exports of IO
A,B>
The combined top-level scopes of A and B.
So this doesn't really tell you which modules are compiled vs.
interpreted but it does give you a good indication of what the current
scope is. I can easily add another command to show the currently loaded
modules, including which ones are interpreted - something like
> :show modules
Main ( Main.hs, interpreted )
Foo ( Foo.hs, Foo.o )
And maybe
> :show bindings
x :: Int
f :: Int -> Bool
Any other show-type things that might be useful?
Cheers,
Simon
=09