> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 03:32:22PM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > As for the primitive operations, you shouldn't use them, ever. If you > > want to add two things use (+). They are merely an internal > > implementation detail, which I guess should never have been available > > to the user in the first place, and now isn't. I guess its a shame > > that a book that is only 2 years old is out of date, perhaps you might > > want to contact the authors to give them this information, so they can > > put it on a web page or something and save other people this > > confusion. > > Yes, these were internal details of the Hugs implementation of the > Prelude, and shouldn't have been exposed. They were only ever visible > when the Prelude was the current module, and have been properly hidden > since the November 2002 release. > > But since they existed only to implement Haskell 98, there are always > Haskell 98 alternatives, e.g. minBound::Int for primMinInt, as already > mentioned.
I have now determined to my satisfaction that Hugs98-plus-Sept2006 has initialization problems concerning Prelude.hs and the use of the -P option. These problems may be peculiar to the port of Hugs to OpenBSD. In any event I have started poking around with gdb to try to figure out what's going on. (I actually can induce hugs to recognize the various prim functions that I initially had trouble with, but it's clear that Prelude processing does not work exactly as documented.) Dave Feustel _______________________________________________ Hugs-Users mailing list Hugs-Users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users
