ghci ignores stuff after an import command and a semicolon

I can put a semicolon and then an expression or declaration after an import command in ghci, and the expression or declaration is simply ignored.

rwbarton@morphism:~/ghc$ ghci-7.10.1
GHCi, version 7.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Prelude> import Data.List; x
Prelude Data.List>

The stuff after the semicolon does have to parse, but then is discarded. Pretty confusing.

It's especially confusing when using ghc -e

rwbarton@morphism:~/ghc$ ghc-7.10.1 -e "import Data.List; sort [2,1]"
rwbarton@morphism:~/ghc$ echo $?
0

The command is wrong (in general you cannot give multiple commands separated by semicolons, you must use multiple -e options), but GHC fails to complain in any way and silently ignores the "second command".

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Trac field	Value
Version	7.10.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	GHCi
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