Installing 2.04.

1997-06-25 Thread Alex Ferguson
Greetings, fellow buggees. Building 2.04 (on a sun/sparc/solaris2.5 box) seemed to go relatively smoothly, up until I tried to do "make install", whereupon the fun really started. Running into some problems, I decided to resort to (gasp!) checking the installation guide, only to discover it

Re: Installing 2.04.

1997-06-25 Thread Alex Ferguson
Some darn fool wrote: libHSposix.a:error reading file Any clues as to what the diagnostic means? Oops! Apparently, "file system full". embarrassed cough My excuses are a confusing error message, and a disk partitioning system no one here seems to understand. BTW, isn't it Canonical GHC

Using `newtype' efficiently

1997-06-25 Thread D. tweed
Hi, I'm writing a program for which a major part of both the code and (I think) the execution time will be taken up by a parser( written using parsing combinators a la Hutton Meijer's report on monadic parser combinators). In order to try to find silly slips through type checking I wanted to use