[Haskell-cafe] dot-ghci files

[Maciej Piechotka]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 14:01 -0500, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
> On 10-12-09 01:57 PM, Claus Reinke wrote:
> >> Perhaps ghc should also ignore all group-writable *.hs, *.lhs, *.c,
> >> *.o, *.hi files.
> >
> > dot-ghci files are *run* if you just start ghci (or ghc -e) in that
> > directory
> > (even if you don't intend to compile, load, or run any Haskell code).
> 
> Haskell developers don't just run ghci. They go ahead to run arbitrary 
> Haskell code too.

On the other hand - code that they likely just seen. On the other
hand .ghci file may not have been even noticed. It makes it much lower
risk.

Regards
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