Michael Weber writes (on the ghc-users list):
I'm slightly puzzled about the definition of list enumerations in
GHC (and possibly other Haskell implementations)...
``[0.0, 2 .. 9] :: [Float]''
== [0.0, 2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0]
Nevertheless, this behaviour is defined by the
I saw in a recent CVS commit log that the -syslib flag in some
Makefiles was being changed to -package. Tell me this rumour isn't
true!
Regards,
Malcolm
When you're compiling a module to be part of a package,
you give the -package-name blah option. When you want to bring a package
into scope, you give the -package blah option.
We also plan to have a way to install remove packages in an existing GHC
installation.
Comments? Ideas for
Me:
However, it is definitely wrong for 'foreign' to be treated as a
keyword. Instead, it is a special identifier
Simon:
Tricky, at least in LALR(1).
Yes, you are right of course. Backtracking parser combinators had me
blinded to the sad realities of the world. :-)
There are standard
