Re: Confused about seq and forms.

Jay Cox wrote: ... so it looks if seq reduced to head normal form, above would be reduced to (\x . 2+y) seq reduces its first argument to weak head normal form, as in: f = seq (const undefined) good g = seq undefined bad Main f good (93 reductions, 148 cells) Main g Program error:

Haskell Report: minor error

Hi Simon, minor error in the Report: Figure 5 that displays the hierarchy of Haskell classes defined in the Prelude also includes the MonadPlus class, which, however, is defined in Monad. Cheers, Ralf ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

trying to tie the knot

Hi All, I thought I was starting to get my head around the whole tying the knot phenomenon, but when my program produced *** Exception: loop I figured I was probably missing something :). Here's what I'm trying to do (I know I could do it without tying the knot, but that seemed like a

trying to tie the knot

Hello! Hal Daume III wrote: [description of a parsing problem that involves forward references] Forward references is the problem. To properly solve it, you have to find a fixpoint. The best way to avoid hitting the bottom is to make sure that the fixpoint combinator is applied to a function.

Re: Confused about seq and forms.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Bernard James POPE wrote: snip Do you have a copy of the book: The implementation of Functional Programming Languages, by Simon Peyton Jones? It is sadly out of print, but most universities have copies in their libraries. It is one of the best references that I know

Private package files don't work on Linux with ghc5.03.20020204

I have a private package file (attached). However, specifying this via -f to the new ghc-pkg has the following unpleasant consequences: (1) -l only knows about the packages in my private file, not in the GHC one. (2) When I try to add a new package to this file that depends on one of the

Linux-Binary: Suggestion: Better solution for libreadline.3 problem

Hi! The INSTALL file of the GHC 5.02.2 Linux Binary Dist contains a note that the compiler has been linked against Readline 3 and that this might cause problems on newer Linux distributions, which use Readline 4. Let me first remark that the same problem occurs with NCurses: GHC ist linked

Re: Cannot build 5.02.2 on Solaris 2.7

I should have followed your suggestion to to rebuild gcc for Solaris 2.7 right away. After rebuilding gcc, the source build and install of 5.02.2 had no problems. I am really sorry having wasted your time with something I had control over myself. While I am curious what difference in the

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 5.03.20020410 snapshot released

BTW, does this version support rank-n types? ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

ASSISTANCE NEEDED.

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Re: ASSISTANCE NEEDED.

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE- STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL This is a common scam. Everyone should ignore it and move on. If you're interested, here's a URL to a site about this particular con-game: http://www.egnet.co.uk/nigeria/index.asp