[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.7.4

2010-07-09 Thread John Meacham
Announcing jhc 0.7.4! There have been a few major changes, the main one being that there is now support for a garbage collector. This drastically increases the number of programs which are feasable to compile with jhc. http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/ Any testing people can do with -fjgc would

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell 2010 Report (final)

2010-07-09 Thread John Meacham
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 12:39:38PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 08/07/2010 22:46, John Meacham wrote: >> Ack, I just noticed that IntPtr,IntMax, and WordPtr and WordMax were >> left out of the report. These are fairly vital for writing portable FFI >> code. > > Make a proposal to get them into H

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell 2010 Report (final)

2010-07-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 08/07/2010 22:46, John Meacham wrote: Ack, I just noticed that IntPtr,IntMax, and WordPtr and WordMax were left out of the report. These are fairly vital for writing portable FFI code. Make a proposal to get them into Haskell 2011, I don't imagine it would be controversial. Cheers,