ghci module list

[Frederik Eaton]

Hi everyone,

Ghci still seems to be erasing the "list of current imported modules"
(I'm sorry I don't know what to call it) whenever I load a file;
sometimes this even means removing the module corresponding to the
just-loaded file from that list...

*Fu.Vector> :load "Boost.hs"
...
Ok, modules loaded: Fu.Vector, Fu.Prepose, Boost.
*Fu.Vector> :m + Boost
*Fu.Vector Boost> :load "Boost.hs"
...
Ok, modules loaded: Fu.Vector, Fu.Prepose, Boost.
*Fu.Vector>  -- after the load command, Boost is missing

On an aside, I was wondering about the feasibility of having some sort
of feature resembling Octave's (and probably Matlab's) "function
files" implementation, in which modified files are automatically
reloaded by the interpreter. I guess a timestamp check could happen
for each loaded module before ghci executes each new piece of
command-line input. I wonder how useful people think this would be.

$ ghci --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.5.20051208

Frederik