Proposed change to various exception-related names

2000-06-30 Thread Simon Marlow
Simon & I have discussed some changes to various names in GHC's exception support, details below, comments appreciated. Problems: * IOErrors are currently distinct from Exceptions. You can't catch an exception with IO.catch or throw one with IO.ioError. * the most commonly used exception ca

RE: perl frontend for ghc

2000-06-30 Thread Simon Marlow
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:36:04AM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: > > [... Haskell frontend for ghc ...] > > How does that affect bootstrapping from hc files? We haven't tackled it yet, but the plan is to write a Makefile that can compile the .hc sources to the driver using gcc. It's just a case

Re: perl frontend for ghc

2000-06-30 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:36:04AM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: > [... Haskell frontend for ghc ...] How does that affect bootstrapping from hc files? Regards, Hannah.