patch applied (/haskell/ghc): Add 6.8.1 download page

Simon Marlow simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 08:28:15 EST 2007


Claus Reinke wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> finding that flag (and other topic-related flags) might become
> easier in future. there is one patch for head that would allow
> to query directly for interactive mode (or other topical) flags:
> 
>    $ /cygdrive/c/fptools/ghc/compiler/stage2/ghc-inplace --flags 
> Interactive:

How did I know that the search term I wanted was "Interactive"?  I'd 
probably try "GHCi" first.  How did I know that I have to add that colon at 
the end?  Yet the user certainly knows how to navigate a web page, or a 
text file or man page on Unix.  We don't need a GHC-specific user interface 
to documentation that needs documenting itself.

Cheers,
	Simon



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