Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-02 Thread Rene de Visser
Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:20110729182136.ga2...@matrix.chaos.earth.li... We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.2.1: Is it normal for the windows build to have 99 unexpected failures?

GHCJS

2011-08-02 Thread Victor Nazarov
Hello, I'm a maintainer and creator of GHCJS tool [1]. GHCJS currently uses GHC API to produce Javascript code from Haskell sources. There is a great interest to the project, but there have been little progress recently. I'm considering the future of it and I'd like to get some advices or

Re: Why no stack overflow in ghci?

2011-08-02 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 11-08-01 10:12 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: On 26/07/2011 22:41, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg88368.html The message linked here doesn't really explain *why*, rather it seems to be a bug report on haskell-cafe (which I don't usually read, so it

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-02 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Excerpts from Victor Nazarov's message of Tue Aug 02 19:12:55 -0400 2011: I can parse arguments myself and throw the rest of them to parseDynamicFlags, but GHC's flags are really complicated and I'm not aware of any argument parsing library that can be used to filter out some specified flags

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-02 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 21:09, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Excerpts from Victor Nazarov's message of Tue Aug 02 19:12:55 -0400 2011: But GHC always emit parse error on javascript keyword. For now I'm using (abusing) ccall calling convention and simple imports works pretty well,

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-02 Thread John Lask
What is really required is a pluggable back-end infrastructure - whereby various back-ends could be maintained (or not) at the discretion of their originators and separate to the official ghc back-ends. Ideally pluggable back-ends would be installable as packages. such infrastructure, I

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-02 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 00:31, John Lask jvl...@hotmail.com wrote: What is really required is a pluggable back-end infrastructure - whereby various back-ends could be maintained (or not) at the discretion of their originators and separate to the official ghc back-ends. I guess I'm confused; I

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-02 Thread John Lask
On 3/08/2011 2:10 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 00:31, John Laskjvl...@hotmail.com wrote: What is really required is a pluggable back-end infrastructure - whereby various back-ends could be maintained (or not) at the discretion of their originators and separate to the