Re: ghc5.03 .hi and .hi-boot files don't you just love those incompatible changes?

2002-04-16 Thread George Russell
Ah, I've figured it out. The new .hi-boot file format is actually Haskell!! Well almost. You have to fully qualify type names (you can't use Int, you must use GHC.Base.Int) and the input isn't run through -cpp. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

ghc5.03 .hi and .hi-boot files don't you just love those incompatible changes?

2002-04-15 Thread George Russell
Formerly .hi and .hi-boot files had the same format; however ghc5.03 has a binary format for .hi files and a textual one for .hi-boot files. This is a nuisance for me, because I have an ingenious scheme by which .hi-boot files are themselves from Haskell files by ghc, which thinks it is