[Haskell-cafe] Re: Weird ghci behaviour?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Nov 14, 2007, at 3:28 , Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> I agree that an informative error message is worth 100 manual  
> pages.  The trouble is that at this stage GHCi doesn't even *know*  
> that 'x' ever existed, because it's not mentioned in the interface  
> file, so it's hard to do even give the error message you suggest.

Not really.  Include the hint on the first "symbol not found" error  
after loading a binary module as a "Perhaps you need to -fforce- 
recomp?"; it doesn't really matter if it turns out the symbol-not- 
found was actually e.g. a typo.

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