On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:42:58PM -0500, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
> As to why it might be confusing, I realize this is extremely
> subjective. Suppose you have a record type, and add a constructor to
> it. As things stand, I can use the compiler to be certain that I've
> found all areas of the code
If we allow C{..} in patterns we should absolutely have it in
expressions too. Both for symmetry and usefulness.
-- Lennart
On Oct 31, 2006, at 14:06 , Iavor Diatchki wrote:
Hello,
I think the "it may be confusing to novices" argument tends to be
over-used and we should be careful b
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:06:01 -0800
"Iavor Diatchki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I think the "it may be confusing to novices" argument tends to be
> over-used and we should be careful before we make language decisions
> solely based on it. At the very least, when there is a suggestion
>
Hello,
I think the "it may be confusing to novices" argument tends to be
over-used and we should be careful before we make language decisions
solely based on it. At the very least, when there is a suggestion
that something might be confusing to someone, there should be an
explanation of what/why
Did someone run the test-suite of the binary distributions?
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6/ghc-6.6-ppc-apple-darwin.tar.gz
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6/ghc-6.6-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
I've build a (ppc-) mac-distribution from sources and my results are
shown below.
I had the follow
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:59:45 +0300
Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Neil,
>
> Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 4:04:23 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> > puns like Foo { .. } would be great too.
> >>
> >> I'd vote for enabling them with a command line switch, rather than by
> >> default, as th
Hello Neil,
Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 4:04:23 AM, you wrote:
>> > puns like Foo { .. } would be great too.
>>
>> I'd vote for enabling them with a command line switch, rather than by
>> default, as they can be confusing to folks learning the language.
> How discussions come full circle :) I st
Deborah Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I checked and the Mac OS X PowerPC binary distribution does not have
> this problem; only Mac OS X Intel.
Is it possible that the Intel distro built the OpenGL package using
Cabal, but the PowerPC distro used Makefiles? I seem to recall there
was
