InstallShield for GHC 4.07

2000-06-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
There's a preliminary InstallShield for GHC 4.07 at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/4.07/ghc-4-07.exe Please play! -- http://sc3d.org/rrt/ | wit, n. educated insolence (Aristotle)

RE: can't compile ghc from cvs

2000-06-26 Thread Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)
I think it's a legitimate problem with the new driver. I hit it myself on Friday. I think that the _Capitalised entity naming scheme is being misinterpreted by pre-4.07 ghc's. ... and I see that Sven has already fixed it. Cool. J

RE: SOEGraphics

2000-06-26 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but SOEGraphics is only implemented on top of the Graphics lib, right? I don't know if the recent revision of the Graphics library that Alastair made fixes this, but the implementation makes (or at least it used to) a couple of crucial assumptions about how

ConcBase.hs compilation

2000-06-26 Thread Stephen Alden Elliott
Firstly, thanks everyone for helping me with the make files. I especially appreciated the suggestion that I use hmake, which is a very nice program. My current problem is the GHC-Hugs incompatibility. As many of you know, some standard Hugs files do not compile under GHC, and so GHC has its

RE: ConcBase.hs compilation

2000-06-26 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
By importing Concurrent in your Haskell code you should get at the 'standard' Conc. Haskell primitives, including 99% of what ConcBase exports. 'runOrBlockIO' isn't supported, but I doubt you'll really need (or want) to use that. In short, if you've got code that imports ConcBase, change that

Re: Library conventions

2000-06-26 Thread George Russell
Jon Fairbairn wrote: Am I alone in thinking that the prelude is desperately in need of restructuring? No. Personally I think it should be got rid of entirely, or rather trimmed down to the absolute bare minimum required for the syntax. By the way I think Sven's proposals are thoroughly

Re: Questions about printing and rounding Float numbers

2000-06-26 Thread Michael Marte
Michael Marte wrote: I have a simple problem but it seems to be quite involved: I want to print floating point numbers with a given number of decimal points. First, I found out that both ghc and hugs do not consider the precision argument to showPrec. What precision argument?

Re: Questions about printing and rounding Float numbers

2000-06-26 Thread Jan Skibinski
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Michael Marte wrote: I always thought that the Int argument to showsPrec is the precision. So what is it good for? The library report does not explain it. I sometimes use it to distinguish between the top and the lower levels of nested data structures,