Re: What's the '0' for in the version number?
G'day all. > > Why is it GHC "5.02.2", "5.03" etc.? Wouldn't it be easier > > with "5.2.2", "5.3"? On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > I don't know, probably historical reasons: as far as I can remember, > GHC's version numbers always had two digits after the decimal point. At least until you get into two-digit major version numbers, this way of doing things makes the filenames appear in version order when you type 'ls'. Cheers, Andrew Bromage ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
RE: What's the '0' for in the version number?
> Why is it GHC "5.02.2", "5.03" etc.? Wouldn't it be easier > with "5.2.2", "5.3"? I don't know, probably historical reasons: as far as I can remember, GHC's version numbers always had two digits after the decimal point. For historians, here is the announcement of the first release of GHC (0.06) archived thanks to Google: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=16945.9203281558%40dcs.glasgow.ac.u k&output=gplain Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
