[ ghc-Bugs-1233278 ] GHC does not eforce that Main exports main

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Bugs item #1233278, was opened at 2005-07-06 09:19
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Category: Compiler
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 2
Submitted By: Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: GHC does not eforce that Main exports main

Initial Comment:
The Haskell 98 report says "A Haskell program is a 
collection of
modules, one of which, by convention, must be called 
Main and must
export the value main." However, the program below 
builds and executes
fine.

module Main() -- should be "module Main" or "module 
Main(main)"
where
main = putStrLn "Hello, World"

$ runghc Main.hs
Hello, World

Originally reported by Brian Smith 
[brianlsmith at gmail.com]

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