patch applied (ghc): -fglasgow-exts no longer implies -fbang-patterns

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Sep 1 21:54:23 EDT 2006


lemmih:
> On 9/1/06, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hello Simon,
> >
> >Friday, September 1, 2006, 5:02:43 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >>   * -fglasgow-exts no longer implies -fbang-patterns
> >
> >why? imho, bang patterns don't create any problems for one who don't
> >know about them
> 
> Try convincing people who define their own (!) that they don't need to
> know about bang patterns. (:

Yeah it breaks lots of uses of ! unexpectedly.

-- Don


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