I wrote:
> I'm still seeing some I/O strangenesses, and I'll mail you a test case
> later today when I've sorted things out so it's a bit clearer what's
> going on.
OK, here we go. The program is at
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/ghc/
as individual files or as a .tar.gz, or you can fin
Earlier I wrote lots of stuff about trying to build GHC from
1999-12-25 using the Debianisation patch from 19990916-3. I said I'd
try the Debianisation patch from 19991206-1 with an appropriate cvs
update, and I've now done that and the compiler seems basically to
work. Thanks, Michael, for poin
Ian Jackson writes ("RE: RegexString: was it really meant to be that way ?"):
> I've just tried my version of RegexString with a compiler snapshot
> obtained by using cvs up -D '25 December 1999' and it doesn't work
> properly any more. It seems that re_match now gives a REmatch whose
> first f
Simon Marlow writes ("RE: RegexString: was it really meant to be that way ?"):
> [ Ian Jackson: ]
> > This appears to attempt to extract all of the $ strings from the
> > match, regardless of whether they were actually found. Or to put it
> > another way, the result of matches is a stream which d
