RE: Trivial disagreements between Hugs98 Dynamic and the document ation

[Sigbjorn Finne (Intl Vendor)]

Hi,

 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~sof/Dynamic.lhs

contains a version that's likeable by Hugs98 (and ghc-4.02).
It gives you the API as per lib document.

--sigbjorn

George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 
> 
> Dear Hugs Maintainers
> 
> Thanks for Hugs 98.
> 
> 
> According to     
>     
> http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc/Docs/latest/l
> ibraries/libs-5.html
> 
> the Dynamic module is supposed to contain a function toDyn and
> a type TypeRep, but actually in this version (990319) they are called
> toDynamic and Type instead.  So I think it's a bug, either in the
> Microsoft copy or in Hugs.
> (1) Who should I believe?
> (2) If the answer to (1) is "Microsoft and GHC", can I assume that
>     Hugs is going to be fixed soon?  (If the answer to this is Yes and
>     you haven't got a corrected version you can send me,
>     I shall probably patch my own copy of Hugs, if No I suppose I will
>     have to insert preprocesser directives depending on 
> whether I'm using
>     GHC or Hugs).  
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> George Russell
>