Re: Bug in BSD module

1998-07-17 Thread Sven Panne
Tom Thorsen wrote: My program keeps crashing with bus error using BSD.getHostByAddr. I think the problem is that the arguments to the function have been swapped in the c call (lines 241-250 of file fptools/ghc/lib/misc/BSD.lhs from the 3.02 distribution), but as I cannot change it and compile

Re: Bug in BSD module

1998-07-17 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Sven Panne writes: Tom Thorsen wrote: My program keeps crashing with bus error using BSD.getHostByAddr. I think the problem is that the arguments to the function have been swapped in the c call (lines 241-250 of file fptools/ghc/lib/misc/BSD.lhs from the 3.02 distribution), but as I

the monomorphism restriction (was: instance contexts)

1998-07-17 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 15-Jul-1998, Alex Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fergus Henderson writes of: the monomorphism restriction (which exists for a similar reason, to ensure termination of type inference). Is this true? The rationale normally given for it by its advocates (boo, hiss) seems invariably

Re: GHC/Hugs Status (was Re: simple interface to web?)

1998-07-17 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 15-Jul-1998, S. Alexander Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you wanting to do away with Makefiles? Makefiles can do an awful lot more than import chasing can and GNU makefiles are very, very short in the normal case. Both Java and Eiffel attempt to do away with Makefiles. Java

Haskell And Y2K

1998-07-17 Thread Elan
Hi, I'm planning to design some semi-automated tools for (Yuk!) Y2K processing of (quite) a few files. I'm trying to determine what my language choices are. Currently I have a bias towards using a functional language to implement these programs, but a) this decision has yet to be finalized; b)

Re: GHC/Hugs Status (was Re: simple interface to web?)

1998-07-17 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
But if there are too many things missing, no one will use Standard Haskell - it already seems as if most of the people on this list are going to go straight to Haskell 2, which would mean that Standard Haskell might only be used for teaching. Indeed, I do expect that most of the people on

ICFP Functional Programming Contest

1998-07-17 Thread Jon Mountjoy
ICFP Functional Programming Contest --- Convinced your favorite functional programming language provides unbeatable productivity? Perhaps it's just the case that functional programming languages attract better programmers than

Re: GHC/Hugs Status (was Re: simple interface to web?)

1998-07-17 Thread Erik Meijer
Indeed, I do expect that most of the people on this list will go straight to (the moving target of) Haskell 2. The purpose of Std Haskell is to address the needs of people who don't need the latest greatest, but do need something stable. For example, the fact that Haskell keeps moving (which in