Re: Happy v1.6.

1999-10-01 Thread Michael Weber
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 19:16:48 +0100, Alex Ferguson wrote: My next worry is that when I try to build ghc from source on an Alpha, I'll get bitten on the bum by the ghc-needs-Happy-needs-(recent)-ghc syndrome, or otherwise spend mucho time wrestling with the Happy build setup to get round

Re: ghc-4.04, Alpha.

1999-10-01 Thread Michael Weber
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 02:10:16 +0100, Alex Ferguson wrote: In order to install ghc-4.04, I need to install the binary v. of 2.10 (this should be OK for doing that, right?) Last time I checked (some months ago), GHC 4.x wasn't in a shape that it could be build at all on Alpha architecture! I

ghc-4.04, Alpha.

1999-10-01 Thread Alex Ferguson
In order to install ghc-4.04, I need to install the binary v. of 2.10 (this should be OK for doing that, right?) Immediately I come a cropper, thus: wisdom.ucc.ie:~/ghc210/fptools: gnumake in-place gnumake config-pkgs bindir=`pwd`/bin/alpha-dec-osf1/ghc-2.10 libdir=`pwd`/lib/alpha-dec-osf1

ghc-4.04, Alpha.

1999-10-01 Thread Kevin GLYNN
If you look on the GHC download page for version 2.10 you will see that there is a patch for the Makefile there. I think this is your problem. It would be great if you can get version 4 running on Alpha, but I suspect that your problems are only just beginning ;-) regards Kevin Alex

Re: ghc-4.04, Sun Solaris 2.5.

1999-10-01 Thread Alex Ferguson
I wrote: syntax error at ../../ghc/driver/ghc line 1855, near "sub runLinker(" Execution of ../../ghc/driver/ghc aborted due to compilation errors. gnumake: *** [Adjustor.o] Error 255 Evidently Perl versionitis. 5.001 no like; 5.005 likum plenty fine. (This seems familiar, but I didn't

Re: CPP is not part of Haskell

1999-10-01 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
"S. Alexander Jacobson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, The Haskell report says that, by convention, only _HASKELL_ files have a .hs or .lhs extension. --http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/literate.html-- By convention, the style of comment is indicated by the file extension,

Re: advice wanted on GUI design patterns

1999-10-01 Thread John Atwood
On Mon 27 Sep, Havoc Pennington wrote: I'm trying to learn Haskell, and I'm wondering what experiences people have with designing programs with graphical user interfaces. Adrian Hey wrote: I have none, but I think you need concurrency to do it properly, Cardelli Pike claim otherwise

RE: advice wanted on GUI design patterns

1999-10-01 Thread Frank A. Christoph
I found this bold statement from their top page amusing: If you want to build robust, scalable, complex _and yet exciting_ software then you need to use pure object-oriented programming techniques. [emphasis mine] Personally, I am a strong advocate of dynamic, rather than