desperately seeking RULES help

[Claus Reinke]

>> nope!-) -fglasgow-exts is sufficient for the RULE to be parsed
>> and applied in Lennart's code, -frewrite-rules doesn't seem to
>> serve any noticable purpose.
> 
> Well, if -O is on, -frewrite-rules is already on by default.
> Try -fno-rewrite-rules with -O to turn them off specifically,

yep, see my note in the ticket about this confusion.

> or in ghci, -frewrite-rules can be used to help them fire even on
> bytecode.

when i tried this earlier, the hpc ticks seemed to get in the way?

claus