suggestion: add a .ehs file type

Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org
Tue Nov 20 16:39:57 EST 2007


Am Dienstag, 20. November 2007 22:15 schrieb Alex Jacobson:
> .ehs stands for extended haskell and encapsulates the 90% case of people
> just wanting -fglasgow-exts with a minimum of fuss.
>
> Having a filetype seesm better than the alternatives of either adding
> boilerplate language/options pragmas to the top of your source files or
> putting them in a cabal file.
>
> -Alex-

And if a new Haskell standard is released, we have to rename lots of files 
from *.ehs to *.hs. :-( 

Extended Haskell is Haskell in a different version.  So it’s still Haskell and 
should be put into *.hs files.

Best wishes,
Wolfgang


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