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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