[Haskell-cafe] Weird interaction between literate haskell, ghci and OverloadedStrings

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Joachim Breitner wrote:

> it does not seem to be related to literate haskell, if I copy the code
> from your file into a .hs without the "> ", ghci still does not activate
> the OverloadedStrings extension when loading the file.

I hadn't noticed that.
 
> I’d consider this a bug until the developers explain why this should or
> cannot be different, and suggest you file it as such.

I agree. I've lodged a bug report here:

    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5673

Erik
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