Syntax extensions (was: RE: The Future of Haskell discussion at the Haskell Workshop)

[Andy Moran]

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:22 am, Hal Daume III wrote:
> I agree with Malcolm, with the possible addition of:
>
>   keep -fglasgow-exts as it is (or, even, perhaps continue making it the
> "add all extensions keyword).  also have -fffi, -farrows, -fth, etc.
> but also have, -fnoth and -fnoffi.  that way, if a lot of us have code
> that uses all the extensions other than TH and have lots of code that
> looks like (foo$bar), we can just to -fglasgow-exts -fnoth.
>
> seems to be a win-win.

I agree; I want a catch-all flag, but I also want to flexibility to be able 
to pick and choose.  Both -f<feature> and -fno<feature> is the way to go 
IMHO.

A

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