recursive modules in Haskell

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| there is no need to use such hacks.  it is not dificult to add suport=20
| for mutually recursive modules to an implementation directly.=20
| unfortunatley none of the working haskell implementations support=20
| recursive modules,

Simple in principle, not so simple in practice.  If it was easy to make
GHC do mutually recursive modules we'd do it right away.  It's certainly
possible but it's real work, and .hi-boot files, while clunky, do the
job.

S