Re: Wanted: warning option for usages of unary minus

2007-05-14 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, I agree with Simon on this one: "x-1" should parse as expected (i.e., the infix operator "-" applied to two arguments "x" and "1"). Having this result in a type error would be confusing to both beginners and working Haskell programmers. I think that if we want to change anything at all, w

ghc-6.6.1 Mac (Darwin) Binary Dists

2007-05-14 Thread Christian Maeder
I've made binary distributions for powerpc and intel macs that rely on a GNUreadline.framework and a GMP.framework that can be found (for both architectures) here: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets/mac_e.htm http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forsc

Re: Sparc/Intel Solaris support

2007-05-14 Thread Christian Maeder
Joel Reymont schrieb: > Christian, > > On May 10, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Christian Maeder wrote: > >> work well under Solaris 10 for us. I'm in the process of making >> distributions for ghc-6.6.1. > > Where do you install ghc on Solaris 10? I have /opt/csw, should I just > move the tree there and a

Re: Wanted: warning option for usages of unary minus

2007-05-14 Thread Simon Marlow
John Meacham wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:05:21AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: I definitely think that -1# should be parsed as a single lexeme. Presumably it was easier at the time to do it the way it is, I don't remember exactly. I'd support a warning for use of prefix negation, or alter