[Haskell-cafe] Re: Module.T naming style

[Malcolm Wallace]

"Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> writes:

> I hope you weren't including GHC in "most compilers" :-)  GHC's
> implementation of mutually recursive modules is conformant with Haskell
> 98 (see Section 5.7).

It depends on how you interpret this phrase:
    "may require that imported modules contain additional information"
If you count writing a separate .hs-boot file as being the additional
information that is somehow "contained" within the module, then I
suppose nhc98 is also conformant with the report.

The only difference with nhc98 is that you hand-write a .hi file,
rather than a .hs-boot file, but the syntax is very similar to plain
Haskell.  Also, the hand-written .hi file will be replaced with a
machine-generated one after compilation, but that is only a problem
if the user inadvertently removes all the .hi files.

Regards,
    Malcolm