Is GPH available for users today ?

2000-06-28 Thread var
Hello, I am very interesting by GPH working on Linux/i386 cluster. I performed many attempts to grasp/build this beautiful thing last years (!), all with negative results :-( Reasons were different: or binaries were compiled for old glibc, or something unsuccesful was happened during source com

Re: ghc graphics library

2000-06-28 Thread Alastair Reid
simonpj writes: > Alastair Reid is, I believe, actively working on updating his graphics > library (from which SOEGraphics was originally derived), to work with > the current version of GHC. > > What I don't know is when he expects to be done. > > Alastair? What's the status? I don't think t

RE: ghc graphics library

2000-06-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Ameet, Stephen, Alastair Reid is, I believe, actively working on updating his graphics library (from which SOEGraphics was originally derived), to work with the current version of GHC. What I don't know is when he expects to be done. Alastair? What's the status? Simon Hi, My name is Ameet

Re: Method contexts

2000-06-28 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 04:36:01 -0700, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > Why can't you have > > class Eq a => Member c a | c -> a where member :: Eq a => c -> a -> Bool > > OK, so then sequences require Eq on elements, but since Member is a > superclass of sequence, every sequence has a

RE: Method contexts

2000-06-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Why can't you have class Eq a => Member c a | c -> a where member :: Eq a => c -> a -> Bool OK, so then sequences require Eq on elements, but since Member is a superclass of sequence, every sequence has a member method, and so a must be in Eq anyway. Puzzled Simon | -Original Message-

Re: perl frontend for ghc

2000-06-28 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:36:04 -0700, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > But fortunately now we have, and if you look at the current CVS > HEAD you'll see the new driver, written (almost) entirely in Haskell. Written in Haskell when we consider a compiler which is needed to compile it, but it'

RE: perl frontend for ghc

2000-06-28 Thread Simon Marlow
> I hope this isn't a FAQ, but AFAIR this hasn't been asked in the past: > > Are there plans to replace the ghc frontend (driver), which > is currently > written in perl, by a version implemented in Haskell? > > I know that perl is nice for fiddling with command line > options, but on > the ot