Re: ghc-2.10 panics at `deriving(Ord)'

1998-01-21 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
S.D.Mechveliani writes: > ghc-2.10 cannot compile data D = D1 deriving Eq,Ord) > while ghc-2. 08 can. > Thanks for a fine report, fixed in the next release. To clarify, derivation of Ord instances on data types with a single nullary constructor will fail with 2.10. We didn't have a regr

Re: Handle

1998-01-21 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Lennart Augustsson writes: > > If I try to make an instance of IO.Handle I get the message > > The type synonym `Handle' cannot be used as an instance type > > The Haskell library report clearly states that Handle is > a real type, and not a synonym: > Thanks, this has been fixed in the c

Handle

1998-01-21 Thread Lennart Augustsson
If I try to make an instance of IO.Handle I get the message The type synonym `Handle' cannot be used as an instance type The Haskell library report clearly states that Handle is a real type, and not a synonym: data Handle = ... -- implementation-dependent instance Eq Handle where ... ins

Re: Problems building 2.10 docs

1998-01-21 Thread Simon Marlow
Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the really hard ones are these: > ... > Making html documentation in ghc/docs/libraries > sgml2html libs.sgml > /soft/IFI/text/sgml-tools-1.0.2/iX86-unknown-linux/bin/nsgmls:0:310:6:E: >document type does not allow element "HLINE" here This is true:

Re: happy bug

1998-01-21 Thread Simon Marlow
Marc van Dongen= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to report the following Happy bug. > With rules of the form: > > > This :: { Type } > > This: Is A Rule{ let a = 1 > > b = 2 > >

ghc-2.10 panics at `deriving(Ord)'

1998-01-21 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
ghc-2.10 cannot compile data D = D1 deriving(Eq,Ord) while ghc-2. 08 can. -- Sergey Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems building 2.10 docs

1998-01-21 Thread Sven Panne
Building GHC-2.10's makes some trouble: panne@liesl > make binary-dist ... ../literate/info-utils/makeinfo installing.texi && ../literate/info-utils/postmakeinfo installing.info Making info file `installing.info' from `installing.texi'. installing.lit:173: Warning: Unknown info command `begin'.

happy bug

1998-01-21 Thread Marc van Dongen=
Hi there, I would like to report the following Happy bug. With rules of the form: > This :: { Type } > This: Is A Rule{ let a = 1 > b = 2 > in $1 } Happy generates .