RE: runghc takes modules from current working directory

On 20 August 2005 22:38, Frederik Eaton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It seems like it would be nice to have runghc not take modules from
> the current working directory in many cases since it breaks
> abstraction. It looks like it may be only a real problem for
> debugging, when modules are supposed to be in a package somewhere, but
> aren't, and the current directory happens to have files of the same
> name, but in those cases it can be quite a pain to track down the
> error. The problem comes up especially often when one writes scripts
> in haskell to work with haskell packages or generate haskell code. Do
> people frequently use the "find modules in the current directory"
> feature, or could they be asked to do that with
> 
> {-# OPTIONS_GHC -i. #-}
> 
> ? (I don't think this works yet) Otherwise maybe a special option
> could be added to tell runghc not to look in the current directory?
> 
> Frederik

runghc -i foo.hs?

Cheers,
        Simon