RE: GHC 3.03

1998-07-13 Thread Frank A. Christoph
We've fixed a few bugs in GHC 3.02, thanks to useful bug reports from several of you. I'd rather not release an 'official' 3.03 because it takes half a day to do a full release, and meanwhile we have a substantial new compiler in the works (new RTS, CAF space leaks squashed, new GC, new Core

proposal for language

1998-07-13 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Recent Haskell ignores the possibility of the automatic type conversion. Thus, 1 + 1%2 is ill-typed. Probably, this is because of the lack of a definite concept of which value has to convert to which between the types. On the other hand, my computer algebra project

Re: proposal for language

1998-07-13 Thread Alastair Reid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.D.Mechveliani) writes: Recent Haskell ignores the possibility of the automatic type conversion. Thus, 1 + 1%2 is ill-typed. and goes on to propose a fix. This expression is perfectly well typed: Hugs 1.4 accepts it without any problems:

Re: proposal for language

1998-07-13 Thread Eric Blough
Alastair Reid writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.D.Mechveliani) writes: Recent Haskell ignores the possibility of the automatic type conversion. Thus, 1 + 1%2 is ill-typed. and goes on to propose a fix. This expression is perfectly well typed: Hugs

Re: proposal for language

1998-07-13 Thread D. Tweed
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Eric Blough wrote: Alastair Reid writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.D.Mechveliani) writes: Recent Haskell ignores the possibility of the automatic type conversion. Thus, 1 + 1%2 is ill-typed. and goes on to propose a fix.

Re: simple interface to web?

1998-07-13 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
You should look at Cardelli's paper on Service Combinators. It contains a description of combinators to handle the unreliable aspects of retrieving web pages. I don't have a URL handy, but you should be able to find it with a quick search. -Alex- On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: simple interface to web?

1998-07-13 Thread Jon . Fairbairn
On 13 Jul, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: You should look at Cardelli's paper on Service Combinators. I don't have a URL handy, but you should be able to find it with a quick search. URL:http://www.luca.demon.co.uk/Papers.html#ServiceCombinators (the links to the contents of the paper are at