[Haskell-cafe] bug in ghci ?

[Christopher Done]

Hehe, seems like a -W-mutual-recursive-default-methods option is in order.

On 8 July 2010 15:47, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Pasqualino \"Titto\" Assini" <tittoassini at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks for the explanation.
>>
>> What I meant is not that is a bug that it recurses but rather the fact
>> that the compiler will accept this incomplete definition without
>> complaining.
>>
>> This problem has bitten me twice while trying to use automatic
>> derivation of a data type in another file.
>>
>> In my innocence I wrote:
>>
>> instance Show Test
>>
>> rather than
>>
>> deriving  instance Show Test
>>
>> I didn't notice the error as GHC seemed to be happy and then when I
>> tried to use it: BANG!
>>
>> Very confusing.
>>
>> I suppose that Haskell has spoiled me, if it compiles I assume that it
>> will work :-)
>
> As I said, there would be no error as all the methods have a definition
> (whether or not they make sense in this case is a different story); it
> will still successfully load a file if any methods don't have
> definitions but will provide a warning in those situations.
>
> --
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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