[Haskell-cafe] Re: Weird ghci behaviour?

[Dan Piponi]

On Nov 12, 2007 1:59 PM, Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> See
>   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/interactive-evaluation.html

I guess the key sentence is:

"For technical reasons, GHCi can only support the *-form for modules
which are interpreted, so compiled modules and package modules can
only contribute their exports to the current scope." But it does mean
the interpreter isn't referentially transparent, which is weird for a
language that puts so much stress on referential transparency.
--
Dan