defaulting vs instance declarations

2004-07-20 Thread Robert Dockins
Hello all, Is is possible to apply numeric defaulting while looking for matching instance declarations? For example, I'd like the following code to work without having to explicitly specify the type of "7": module Main where class Stuff a b c | a b -> c where hi :: a -> b -> c instance Stuff

Re: Release plans

2004-07-20 Thread Alastair Reid
> I'd like to see us support more debugging > information, preferably in a way that can be stripped from a binary. The easy way would be as .stabs entries since that's what gdb uses. However, stabs entries themselves are absolutely horrible (the design obviously started simple and acquired a bun

Re: Release plans

2004-07-20 Thread Bernie Pope
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:29:38AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 20 July 2004 01:43, Bernie Pope wrote: > > > Since you are working on the backend is there any chance that GHC > > could support symbol names in the heap? > > > > I tried to add this previously and failed miserably. > > > > I wou

RE: major missing piece to arrays?

2004-07-20 Thread Simon Marlow
On 20 July 2004 02:23, John Meacham wrote: > Cool, I can build more efficient versions on these now that I know the > ByteArray# as Addr# trick. > > I am curious what the best way to go about writing specialized > versions is, > placing the copying functions in a class, with (slow) default method

RE: Release plans

2004-07-20 Thread Simon Marlow
On 20 July 2004 01:43, Bernie Pope wrote: > Since you are working on the backend is there any chance that GHC > could support symbol names in the heap? > > I tried to add this previously and failed miserably. > > I would be happy with a flag, such as '-debug-symbols' or somesuch, > that keeps so