Re: Prelude not in haskell98?

2007-06-06 Thread Simon Marlow
Isaac Dupree wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan O'Rear wrote: Right, the problem is that if Prelude was in haskell98 then it wouldn't be possible to have a program that /didn't/ depend on haskell98 (short of -fno-implicit-prelude extensions, or having a Prelude in both

Re: GHC 6.6.1 on Debian Etch?

2007-06-06 Thread Wagner Ferenc
Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:13:41PM +0200, Wagner Ferenc wrote: what's the best way to install GHC 6.6.1 on a Debian Etch system? Basically: are there installable packages available somewhere, or should I recompile the Sid packages, or create a stub

Re: Prelude not in haskell98?

2007-06-06 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hi, Just curious, what external modules does the Prelude depend on? The only unusual feature that I can think of in the GHC Prelude is the fact that the partial functions throw exceptions, and so perhaps the Prelude implementation uses some extra modules for that? -Iavor On 6/6/07, Simon Marlow