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 other

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's

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: 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

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 there's

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