[Redirecting to ghc-bugs] That's a bug in 6.4.1 thank you. The reason has to do with z-encoding strings in case they are output to C-land.
Happily the bug is not present in 6.6; I doubt we'll fix 6.4.1 now. I've added a test to make sure it does not creep back: drvrun022 Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arthur van | Leeuwen | Sent: 22 November 2006 16:59 | To: haskell@haskell.org | Subject: [Haskell] Weird field name mangling. | | L.S., | | consider the following code: | | > module TestZ where | > | > import Data.Generics | > | > data TestZ = TestZ { testz :: Int } | > deriving (Show, Read, Eq, Typeable, Data) | > | > main = print $ constrFields . toConstr $ TestZ { testz = 2 } | | I would expect this to output ["testz"]. Instead it outputs ["testzz"], | using GHCi 6.4.1. Why is that z doubled? | | Doei, Arthur. | | -- | | /\ / | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work like you don't need | the money | /__\ / | A friend is someone with whom | Love like you have never | been hurt | / \/__ | you can dare to be yourself | Dance like there's nobody | watching | | | | _______________________________________________ | Haskell mailing list | Haskell@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
