"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The proposal, therefore, is to extend the meaning of '-prof' to mean
> '-prof -osuf p_o -hisuf p_hi' or similar.
I wasn't aware of these ('-*suf') options. Are they respected by the
linker stage? I.e. will ghc --make when invoked with -osuf and -his
I have recently been experimenting writing code that replaces large
chunks of the Prelude, compiling with -fno-implicit-prelude. I notice
that I can happily redefine numeric literals simply by creating functions
called 'fromInteger' and 'fromRational': GHC will use whatever is in
scope for tho
See comments below.
On Sun, May 12, 2002, David Feuer wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2002, Emre Tezel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently bought Simon Thompson's Haskell book. I have been doing the
> > exercises while I read on. There are couple questions that I can not
> > solve. Any help would b
I notice that Prelude.catch and Exception.catch behave differently, even
though they both have the same type signature (and name). Exception.catch
catches exceptions that Prelude.catch does not.
For instance, it is possible to bind pure functional exceptions into the
IO monad using Exception.e
> I am curious as to why the List.sort implementation in GHC is a
> quicksort algorithm rather than an algorithm that guarantees n log n
> time in the worst case?
I'm not going to defend quicksort here, but your question reminded
me of another one, asked a while ago on comp.lang.functional (actu
