Using -fext-core without a Main function

[Isaac Dupree]

On 04/13/10 12:48, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
> The flag -fext-core is a red herring. GHC assumes any module with no
> "module" declaration is actually called Main and hence insists on a
> main declaration.

...or to be precise, it means
module Main (main) where {...}
...and this is what the Haskell 98 standard requires (section 5.1).

Thus, main has to be defined/imported in said module, so that it can be 
exported thus.

(Also, GHC feels free to remove/optimize/change definitions that are not 
exported...)

-Isaac