i meant the hugs i get from Yale, not the hugs i get from Nottingham ---
whatever you want to call it.
byron
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Alastair Reid wrote:
> > Hi, I get the following error when using Hugs (Jan'98)
> > > ERROR "V.hs" (line 6): Insufficient class constraints in instance member
> > > binding
> > > *** Context : ()
> > > *** Required : Anonymous a
> >
> > [...]
>
> Just for the record, it doesn't work in June98 Hugs either.
>
> > GHC, HBC and Hugs-1.3c all have no problem with this file.
> > HINT: it works in Yale-Hugs if you replace "vector = V anon" with
> > "vector = V (anon,anon)".
>
> There's no such thing as "Yale-Hugs". Perhaps you mean "Nottingham
> and Yale Hugs" (which is usually just called "Hugs")?
>
> Hugs is known as "Nottingham and Yale Hugs" instead of "Yale and
> Nottingham Hugs" not because N comes before Y in the dictionary but
> because Mark Jones wrote the original version of Hugs, because
> he wrote _at least_ 90% of the code in the current distribution and
> because he continues to make important contributions to Hugs.
>
> The most obvious recent contribution by Mark is the new typechecker in
> Hugs 1.3c. This is a major rewrite of the typechecker which adds a
> lot of really neat features. Mark did all the work on that - basically
> because he knows how to write typecheckers and we don't.
> We'll be integrating the new typechecker into the next major release
> along with the new code generator and the GHC runtime system.
>
> So, please, forget this "Yale Hugs" nonsense. Its embarressing for Yale
> and (IMHO) it's insulting to Mark. The name is "Hugs" or "Nottingham
> and Yale Hugs" and you should use the version name to distinguish one
> version from another.
>
>
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> Alastair Reid Yale Haskell Project Hacker
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>
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