Re: 7.4.1-cand for docon

2011-12-30 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 07:55:05PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > Dear GHC team, > > The archive > http://botik.ru/pub/local/Mechveliani/ghcBugs/ghc741candQuest.zip > > contains the source of the docon-2.12 application. > ghc-7.0.1 compiles it and runs the test successfully. > ghc-7

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew Farkas-Dyck
On 30/12/2011, Andriy Polischuk wrote: > You're right, i should have written "ambiguities" instead. > That was not joke, just i somehow didn't notice Chris Smith answer. Hm. I though at first that if backslash were the selection operator, then there must be programs of unclear semantics, but actu

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Andriy Polischuk
You're right, i should have written "ambiguities" instead. That was not joke, just i somehow didn't notice Chris Smith answer. However, I think, there are some drawbacks in using dot for that in comparison with qualified imports access. The latter is easier to distinguish from composition by eye,

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew Farkas-Dyck
Certainly not no conflicts: lambda expressions. On 30/12/2011, Colin Adams wrote: > On 30 December 2011 15:55, Matthew Farkas-Dyck wrote: > >> On 30/12/2011, Andriy Polischuk wrote: >> > Yet another idea: >> > Consider using '\' as record access operator. No conflicts with anything >> at >> >

Re: 7.4.1-cand for docon

2011-12-30 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello Serge, On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 07:55:05PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > ... > Has the status of the module Random changed in ghc-7.4.1 ? Between ghc-7.0.4 and ghc-7.4.1, we find http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/release-7-2-1.html that says: 1.5.12.22. ran

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew Farkas-Dyck
On 30/12/2011, Andriy Polischuk wrote: > Yet another idea: > Consider using '\' as record access operator. No conflicts with anything at > all, and, > moreover, it really looks like hierarchical access. Reminds of filesystems > though. I hope this is a joke. > > Matthew Farkas-Dyck wrote >> >> A

7.4.1-cand for docon

2011-12-30 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Dear GHC team, The archive http://botik.ru/pub/local/Mechveliani/ghcBugs/ghc741candQuest.zip contains the source of the docon-2.12 application. ghc-7.0.1 compiles it and runs the test successfully. ghc-7.4.0.20111219 cannot compile it. 1. It requires to add Show a to Integral a in a

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-30 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear GHC team, for your convenience, I have filed individual bugs about the build errors: Am Freitag, den 23.12.2011, 14:54 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner: > the build system seems to be quite confused on arch/os-combinations > besides {i386,amd64}/linux. All these worked fine with 7.2.2: > > ht