Excerpts from Jean-Philippe Bernardy's message of Wed Mar 25 20:05:02 +0100 2009: > > Yep, I think the first step would be to modify data-accessor-template > to generate type signatures. That might remove a good 50 warnings.
This is almost done, the version 0.2.1 does that but there is a bug in case of parameterized data types (I think that Yi is unaffected). I've submitted a patch and 0.2.2 should be OK. > > -- JP > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Kevin Ballard <kball...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> The number of warnings that a clean build of yi triggers is rather > >> frightening. It also makes it quite difficult to figure out if a change > >> I've > >> made has introduced any new warnings. I would like to suggest that anybody > >> capable of doing so should start trying to fix these warnings, with the > >> eventual goal of `runghc Setup build` printing zero warnings (though, > >> given > >> the current number, that may not be attainable). I will certainly try to > >> do > >> my part, but as a relative newcomer to yi and to Haskell in general, I > >> don't > >> know if I'll be able to understand them well enough to be sure of any > >> fixes. > >> Does anybody else have an opinion on this? > > > > It's a good goal, but many of them are out of our power - like the > > defaulting messages caused by the derive-generated code. And I think a > > number of them are there just because some code is experimental and not yet > > cleaned up - there a -Wall cleanup could be detrimental. > > > > -- > > gwern > -- Nicolas Pouillard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
