[Haskell-cafe] Cyclic Inclusions

[Don Stewart]

cmb21:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about cyclic inclusions. It appears in the Haskell 98
> report that mutually recursive modules are allowed, however GHC complains
> at any Haskell project that has cyclic inclusions (implicit or explicit).
> Am I right in thinking that this is a GHC limitation?
> 
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/modules.html
> 
> 

GHC provides a mechanism to support mutually recursive modules, but
you  must break the cycle manually, via a boot file.

    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/separate-compilation.html#mutual-recursion