Default name of target executable

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Tue Oct 11 06:06:44 EDT 2005


On 11 October 2005 11:04, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> I'd tend to agree.
> 
> It'd mean one less magic incantation to tell students when teaching
> practicals (and one less thing for them to get wrong) if they can do:
> 
> ghc --make Main.hs
> 
> rather than
> 
> ghc --make Main.hs -o Main
> 
> (that's one advantage of ghci for teaching students, that 'ghci
> Blah.hs' "Just Works"tm)

Ok, let's close this bikeshed.  Someone want to send us a patch?

Cheers,
	Simon


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