I've created a ticket at: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10176
Now I know what I'm looking for, I'll aim to track down a minimal
example over nap time (about 5 hours from now).
Thanks, Neil
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote:
A simple test case
I'm wondering how we are all feeling about the platform these days
I notice that in the new Haskell pages, the Platform is definitely not the
recommended way to go: The main download pages suggests the compiler and
base libraries as the first option - and the text for the Platform (second
On 2015-03-21 at 08:21:20 +0100, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
On 2015-03-21 at 07:56:32 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
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3) I tested with GHC RC1 and GHC RC2, both of which were fine. The fact no
one else hit this with RC2 might just be because its a very recent
regression.
We -- and by
This is very odd---the example on the ticket does not use `Typeable` at all.
I looked through the diffs of the patch and I can't see anything obviously
wrong.
Also, the `Typeable` code only touches modules that are in the front-end,
and when I compile without optimizations, the example looks
Yes, this was what I was afraid of; an introduced regression in the RC
2-to-3 period, which IMO makes the bug a bit more serious. Also, this
bug in particular looks like it manifests in a fairly nasty way, and
having it catch people for the final release seems a bit worrisome.
I also just
I can't speak for others but as a regular but enthusiastic Haskell user the
platform always (not just since sandboxes) felt outdated and limited to the
included packages since the rest of the Haskell ecosystem rapidly moved on
after a platform release (or even during its stabilization freeze phase
