Re: Haddock problems with Haskell-Platform2012.2.0.0

2012-06-11 Thread Katsutoshi Itoh
Thanks for your information. I was able to understand I've seen the ticket. The `ghc-pkg check' has checked the existing of haddock-interfaces and haddock-html. When we just install haskell-platform from tarball, these documentations are not installed. On the other hand, `ghc-pkg check' complains t

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.4.2

2012-06-11 Thread Paolo Capriotti
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Brent Yorgey wrote: > Thanks for the release! One quick question -- the release notes say > > "A bug in dependency analysis of type declarations in the presence > of type families (#5826) has been fixed." > > However, #5826 seems to be about something entirely d

Re: GHC build linking error

2012-06-11 Thread wren ng thornton
On 6/7/12 12:40 PM, Sean Leather wrote: I was hoping somebody else had a bright idea, but no takers, yet. I don't remember where I got my GMP.framework from, exactly. I thought it used to be bundled with the HP. But it's apparently not anymore. I did some digging and came across the old reposit

Re: Kindness of strangers (or strangeness of Kinds)

2012-06-11 Thread AntC
Simon Peyton-Jones microsoft.com> writes: > > There is a little, ill-documented, sub-kind hierarchy in GHC. I'm trying hard to get rid of it as much as > possible, and it is much less important than it used to be. It's always been there, and is nothing to do with polykinds. > > I've extended

Re: Kindness of strangers (or strangeness of Kinds)

2012-06-11 Thread Edward Kmett
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:58 PM, AntC wrote: > Simon Peyton-Jones microsoft.com> writes: > > > > > There is a little, ill-documented, sub-kind hierarchy in GHC. I'm trying > hard to get rid of it as much as > > possible, and it is much less important than it used to be. It's always > been > the

Re: Kindness of strangers (or strangeness of Kinds)

2012-06-11 Thread AntC
Edward Kmett gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:58 PM, AntC clear.net.nz> wrote: >> >> [snip ...] >> >> Could we have :k (->) :: OpenKind -> * -> *  -- why not? > > I don't quite understand why you would want arbitrary kinded arguments, but only in negative position.  > Thanks Ed