Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-03 Thread Simon Marlow
On 02/03/2010 17:45, Yitzchak Gale wrote: Jeremy Shaw wrote: I would still vote for that error in the 'worst ghc error message contest'... Simon Marlow wrote: Oh, the problem here is that... when we got around to trying to import it we found that it was not loaded. Perhaps the implicit

Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-03 Thread Simon Marlow
On 03/03/2010 12:37, Yitzchak Gale wrote: Jeremy Shaw wrote: I would still vote for that error in the 'worst ghc error message contest'... I wrote: Can't we add something like (Is there more than one Prelude in your path?) to the message for Prelude? Simon Marlow wrote: So I could add a

Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-03 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I wrote: I was suggesting that whenever the Prelude fails to load, the error message should contain that hint. hmm, I'll think about that. Is it not enough to see a compilation error pointing to the file Prelude.hs? Seems obvious in the context of this thread. But not being in the middle of

Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-02 Thread Josef Svenningsson
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Jeremy Shaw jer...@n-heptane.com wrote: is there, by chance, a file named Prelude.hs in the working directory? (the directory you are in when you type ghci?) - jeremy Ah. Thanks! That was indeed the problem. Though I think ghci:s response could be a little bit

Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Marlow
On 02/03/2010 08:59, Josef Svenningsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Jeremy Shawjer...@n-heptane.com wrote: is there, by chance, a file named Prelude.hs in the working directory? (the directory you are in when you type ghci?) - jeremy Ah. Thanks! That was indeed the problem.

Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-02 Thread Josef Svenningsson
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/03/2010 08:59, Josef Svenningsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Jeremy Shawjer...@n-heptane.com  wrote: is there, by chance, a file named Prelude.hs in the working directory? (the directory you are in

Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-02 Thread Jeremy Shaw
I would still vote for that error in the 'worst ghc error message contest'. I got it just last night with 6.13 when I tried to run the Setup.hs function in base: ~/n-heptane/projects/haskell/darcs/base-3.0.3.2 $ rm Setup.o Setup.hi ~/n-heptane/projects/haskell/darcs/base-3.0.3.2 $ ghc --make -O2

Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Marlow
On 02/03/2010 15:46, Jeremy Shaw wrote: I would still vote for that error in the 'worst ghc error message contest'. I got it just last night with 6.13 when I tried to run the Setup.hs function in base: ~/n-heptane/projects/haskell/darcs/base-3.0.3.2 $ rm Setup.o Setup.hi

I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-01 Thread Josef Svenningsson
Hi, It seems I've been able to mess up my ghc installation pretty badly. Here is what happens if I just try to invoke ghci from the prompt: $ ghci GHCi, version 6.10.4: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer ... linking ...

Re: I accidentally the Prelude

2010-03-01 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Josef Svenningsson josef.svennings...@gmail.com wrote: What I really would like to know is if there is a simple way to fix this without completely reinstalling ghc with all the libraries I have installed. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Here's