Re: -W option

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:37:34PM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote:
> The error report comes when loading MarshalUtils.hs which is one of the new 
> standard FFI libraries and defines a function called 'with'.  It's an 
> incredibly useful library that would be painful to avoid.
> 
> I'd say the problem is in Hugs.  Why does it have a setting which prevents it 
> from being able to load standard libraries?  It's now something like 2 years 
> since we agreed to change the syntax, isn't it time that we removed support 
> for the flag from the compiler?  I vote for eliminating the +/-W flag.

Jeff Lewis likes the 'with' keyword and wants to keep the option of +W
(though off by default).