Re: Superclasses

2017-02-20 Thread Edward Kmett
I'm rather incapacitated at the moment as I just got out of major surgery, so I'm not in a good place to check particulars right now. I can definitely say I'd like some way to attain an equivalent result, but I accept that it may not be possible with the machinery we have. -Edward On Mon, Feb

MSYS2 update (those who build on Windows please read)

2017-02-20 Thread Phyx
Hi Windows devs, February comes with a major change in behavior for MSYS2/Cygwin. Tools such as awk/sed etc now use binary mode unless on a text mount: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2017-02/msg00036.html This is problematic because GHC etc only use the underlying OS to determine how to

Superclasses

2017-02-20 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Edward In comment:23 of https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11523 I claim that there is an infinite tower of superclasses, so that GHC can legitimately spin. You have not responded for nearly a year. Do you agree? Simon ___ ghc-devs mailing list