Re: curiosity, bug, or just dead code?

2007-09-10 Thread Tim Chevalier
names can still be resolved unambiguously." (section 5.3.3) and in this case, T.length is ambiguous as you say, so I think the module should fail to typecheck. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * catamorphism.org * Often in error, never in doubt "Investing in monopoly software is like in

Re: [GHC] #1518: Make it possible to evaluate monadic actions when assigning record fields (<-)

2007-07-13 Thread Tim Chevalier
ar be lazy as it normally is, then you get effectful expressions being evaluated at unpredictable times (e.g., in my example, maybe the foo field will never be demanded and the quux field will be), which is generally considered harmful. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier* catamorphism.org *Often in e

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc warning "Var/Type length mismatch"

2007-03-22 Thread Tim Chevalier
ailing lists for an appropriate place for GHC bugs but didn't find one. Try glasgow-haskell-bugs; I'm forwarding this message there (I don't know offhand whether that warning is anything to be concerned about, but on ghc-bugs it'll get noticed pretty quickly.) Cheers, Tim