[Haskell-cafe] ANN: HLint 1.2

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Neil Mitchell wrote:

> Hi Henning,
>
>>> To install: cabal update && cabal install hlint
>>
>> Fails for me, because of the base-4 dependency. - I'm still using GHC-6.8.2.
>> Can HLint suggest view-pattern-free expressions, such that the program also
>> runs on GHC-6.8 ?  :-)
>
> HLint is written using view-patterns so requires GHC 6.10 to compile
> it. After you have it compiled its just a standard Haskell binary, so
> can be run on any Haskell code and will never suggest view-patterns
> anyway.

My question was, whether HLint can help translating HLint to code without 
view patterns.