patch applied (/haskell/ghc): Add 6.8.1 download page
Simon Marlow
simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 07:02:19 EST 2007
Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:15 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
>
>> I think that -fno-print-bind-result should be the default. Several people
>> have asked for this, indeed I'm not sure why we didn't make it the default
>> when we added the option:
>>
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/887
>
> I still like my suggestion (in the bug report above) of:
>
> > content <- getContents
>
> would not print anything, but
>
> > getContents
>
> would print. That seems reasonably intuitive to me.
Sure, that's exactly what -fno-print-bind-default does, and I agree it
should be the default.
> I'm often annoyed by foo <- readFile printing the entire file contents
> on my console. I know there is this flag to turn it off but I can never
> remember what the flag is called. I have to look it up every time or
> suffer pages of file content on my console.
Put it in your ~/.ghci :-)
Cheers,
Simon
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