[Haskell-cafe] Re: Weird ghci behaviour?

[Jules Bean]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> The only problem with this is that someone who isn't aware of this 
> convention might accidentally be ignoring compiled code, or might wonder 
> why their compiled code isn't being used.  Well, perhaps this is less 
> confusing than the current behaviour; personally I find the current 
> behaviour consistent and easy to understand, but I guess I'm in the 
> minority!


Anecdotes have little value, but for what it's worth: in around 5 years 
of ghc use, I have never, not even once, wanted to load the module I was 
working on in its compiled form. I've occasionally noticed that 
dependent modules get loaded quickly from their .o's and thought that 
was handy, but that's all. During that time I have many times been 
annoyed that a .hs file which I load from the command line or via :load 
(or via C-c C-l in emacs mode) get loaded in interpreted form :)

Jules