lambda calculus theory

2005-11-06 Thread Hans N Beck
Hi, I'm searching for a good mathematical oriented introduction to the theory of lambda calculus or other theoretical foundations of Lisp/ Haskell, i.e. monads or such (of course in the web there are much hints, but what is the best for mathematicans foreign to this field) Regards Hans

Proposal: Improved error message of Error in array index

2005-11-06 Thread Rene de Visser
I suggest that the code in GHC.Arr be changed from error Error in array index to error Error in array index ++ show b ++ show i so that the bounds and offending index is shown. This is easy to do as the information is already available, and would in most cases be of great help to the user

HSQL installation woes

2005-11-06 Thread Ed Osinski
Hi, I'm trying to install GHC and related software under Solaris 9 and am stuck at HSQL. I initially used the binary package of ghc 6.4.1. It installed w/o any problems, and I was able to build alex, happy, haddock and cpphs. However, when trying to install HSQL-1.6, it complained about ld not

Re: INSTANCE_TYPEABLEx now missing in GHC

2005-11-06 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
vadim: Dear all, I installed latest GHC version 6.5.20051102, and then, when compiling 'hs-plugins', I got an error about INSTANCE_TYPEABLE. Those were previously defined in 'Typeable.h' file, and copying its definition from older version makes things work. Is that change intentional?

-ferror-spans and ghci

2005-11-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/mindent$ ghci -ferror-spans ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.4, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \/\/ /_/\/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base-1.0 ...