RE: Problems with GHC 4.04 binary package under i386 Linux

1999-08-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Simon Marlow is away till next week, so I'm afraid you won't get any help till then. Sorry. Simon -Original Message- From: Mark Utting Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with GHC 4.04 binary package under i386

Instance bug

1999-08-17 Thread Sven Panne
Here one of my favourite bugs in larger projects (IIRC, this has partly been reported by me in the "Importing, hiding, and exporting" thread): -- A.hs - module A where data Foo = Foo -- Typo! Forgot "deriving Show" -- B.hs

Typechecker buglet

1999-08-17 Thread Sven Panne
The typo in the following module causes ghc to crash: -- module Foo where data Bar = Bar { flag :: Bool } data State = State { bar :: Bar, baz :: Float } display :: State - IO () display (State{ bar = Bar { flag = f, baz = b }}) =

Re: Field label bug?

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Weber
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 16:40:30 -0500, Michael Hobbs wrote: Is this a bug with ghc-4.04 or just a "feature" of Haskell 98 that I was unaware of? I get a parse error with the following code: data Point = Pt {pointx, pointy :: Float} abs (Pt {pointx, pointy}) = sqrt (pointx*pointx +

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1999-08-17 Thread Tim Sauerwein
Hello friends: Thanks for making GHC available. I regret to report the following installation problem. Yours, Tim Sauerwein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Windows 98 Cygwin B20 GHC 4.03, Install Shield Version Everything unpacked successfully. Configure produced: creating cache

RE: Field label bug?

1999-08-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
"Punning" was removed (in my view this was a mistake) in Haskell 98. That's why neither GHC nor Hugs accepts it. Simon -Original Message- From: Michael Hobbs Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 10:41 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Field label bug? Is this a bug with ghc-4.04 or