Re: Building ghc stages - solved

2006-04-21 Thread Marc Weber
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:35:20PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Currently > -fglasgow-exts > implies > -fth > > That is, you get Template Haskell if you specify -fglasgow-exts. The > trouble is that if you don't know about TH, then the error messages can > be deeply strange, as

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 6.4.2

2006-04-21 Thread Brian Hulley
Simon Marlow wrote: Brian Hulley wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: [Snip] We are able to release VH under a BSD license now. The code is in darcs and BSD licensed: http://darcs.haskell.org/vshaskell/. I think the current binary distribution still has the old license, but we'll hopefully refresh the

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 6.4.2

2006-04-21 Thread Brian Hulley
Sigbjorn Finne wrote: A candidate 6.4.2 installer for Windows is now available, http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6-4-2-20060421.msi Unless any major issues show up over the weekend, I'll move it into its proper directory early next week. Thanks. I've installed i

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 6.4.2

2006-04-21 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
A candidate 6.4.2 installer for Windows is now available, http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6-4-2-20060421.msi Unless any major issues show up over the weekend, I'll move it into its proper directory early next week. thx --sigbjorn Note: someone requested including the O

RULES

2006-04-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello GHC, i has the following function: freezeIOUArray :: (Unboxed e, HasDefaultValue e, Ix i) => IOUArray i e -> IO (UArray i e) when i try to use rule: {-# RULES "freeze/IOUArray" freeze = freezeIOUArray #-} the compiler barks. i found the way that compiled: {-# RULES "freeze/IOUArray

Visual Haskell

2006-04-21 Thread Dmitri Pissarenko
Hello! First of all I want to thank all the people, who developed Visual Haskell. It's a big step towards functional programming in real life. I have an application in C# in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Haskell, which seems to work only in Visual Studio 2003 (both Visual Studios are insta

Re[2]: using ghc with make

2006-04-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Friday, April 21, 2006, 12:22:00 PM, you wrote: > There are several papers at the level you're interested in, I think: > Lennart's "Implementing Haskell Overloading" is a good one, and you > might find "Type classes in Haskell" (Hall/Hammond/Peyton Jones/Wadler) > useful, also "Impl

Re[2]: Building ghc stages - solved

2006-04-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Friday, April 21, 2006, 1:35:20 AM, you wrote: > Suggestion: if you want TH, you must specify -fth explicitly; > -fglasgow-exts won't imply it. i agree - glasgow exts are used all the day, TH usage is very rare in my programs -- Best regards, Bulatma

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 6.4.2

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Marlow
Brian Hulley wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: = The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.4.2 = I notice that everything except the standalone Windows por

Re: using ghc with make

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Thursday, April 20, 2006, 11:54:59 AM, you wrote: lazyGet can only be used to read something that was written with lazyPut. lazyPut writes the offset of the end of the serialised data at the beginning, so that lazyGet can skip over it, and subsequent gets start from th

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 6.4.2

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Marlow
Nick Main wrote: Are there any plans to release an OS X Intel version of this ? If not, has anyone has any success in getting the PowerPC version to run under Rosetta (complains about invalid intel instructions) ? I believe so. Wolfgang? ___ Glasgo