main modules in GHC

[Graham Klyne]

At 11:37 23/06/03 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>The question of conveniently naming a function to use as the 'main'
>function has come before.
>I've implemented a -main-is flag for GHC, so you can nominate either the
>module containing the main function, or the main function name, or both.

That sounds most helpful, thank you.

(For me, nominating the module is enough.)

>The change is in the repository, and it's documented in the manual.   I
>hope this'll help the test-suite folk.

I take it that's not yet a released compiler version?  (I'm currently using 
5.4.03, and expect to upgrade at some time after the generics support is 
felt to be reasonably stable and also supported by Hugs.)

#g


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