> Why is it GHC "5.02.2", "5.03" etc.? Wouldn't it be easier 
> with "5.2.2", "5.3"?

I don't know, probably historical reasons: as far as I can remember,
GHC's version numbers always had two digits after the decimal point.
For historians, here is the announcement of the first release of GHC
(0.06) archived thanks to Google:

        
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=16945.9203281558%40dcs.glasgow.ac.u
k&output=gplain

Cheers,
        Simon

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