suggestion: add a .ehs file type

[Simon Marlow]

Alex Jacobson wrote:

> In any case, I'm pretty sure the correct answer is not 50 language 
> pragmas with arbitrary spellings for various language features at the 
> top of each source file.

You probably won't like any of these, but there are many ways to avoid 
writing out all the pragmas at the top of each file.

1. Use Cabal's extensions field.

2. Use CPP

MyExtensions.h:
{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell, FlexibleInstances,
              OverlappingInstances, UndecidableInstances, CPP,
              ScopedTypeVariables, PatternSignatures, GADTs,
              PolymorphicComponents, FlexibleContexts,
              MultiParamTypeClasses, DeriveDataTypeable,
              PatternGuards #-}

MyModule.hs:
{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}
#include "MyExtensions.h"

3. Use a shell alias

alias ghce='ghc -XTemplateHaskell -XFlexibleInstances ...'

4. use a script wrapper for GHC

#!/bin/sh
exec ghc -XTemplateHaskell -XFlexibleInstances ... $*

I'm sure there are more...

Cheers,
	Simon

> -Alex-
> 
> Simon Marlow wrote:
>> Alex Jacobson wrote:
>>> I'm fine with that as well.  I'm just opposed to being force to look 
>>> up the precise names the compiler happens to use for each language 
>>> extension I happen to use.  Having -fglasgow-exts turned on by 
>>> default also works.
>>
>> -fglasgow-exts is a historical relic.  It's just an arbitrary 
>> collection of extensions.  It doesn't contain all the extensions 
>> provided by GHC, as many of them steal syntax and you probably don't 
>> want them all on at the same time.  We're trying to move away from 
>> -fglasgow-exts, which is why GHC 6.8.1 provides separate flags for all 
>> the extensions we provide. Eventually we'll have a new standard 
>> (Haskell' or whatever) that will collect many of the extensions 
>> together, so you'll just have to write {-# LANGUAGE Haskell' #-}.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Simon
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