RE: Instance bug

1999-08-24 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
: Friday, August 20, 1999 12:55 PM > To: 'Sven Panne'; GHC Bugs > Subject: RE: Instance bug > > > There's something very mysterious going on here. The > booted compiler does something different to the non-booted one! > (The latter works ok.) > > Will investi

Re: Instance bug

1999-08-20 Thread Sven Panne
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > There's something very mysterious going on here. The > booted compiler does something different to the non-booted one! > (The latter works ok.) :-} > [...] This isn't really holding you up now, right? No, it doesn't: "grep Show *.hi" helps... Ciao, Sven -- Sve

RE: Instance bug

1999-08-20 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
There's something very mysterious going on here. The booted compiler does something different to the non-booted one! (The latter works ok.) Will investigate, but perhaps not very fast. This isn't really holding you up now, right? Simon > -Original Message- > From: Sven Panne > Sent:

RE: instance bug(?)

1998-12-22 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Jeff found a nice bug here. GHC tries not to import too many instance decls because then it has to import the types they mention, and that means more instance decls and so on. But here, an instance decl used a type synonym, and did so in the interface file; but in the importing module that synon