Re: Big heap for a small program

1997-04-30 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
Marc Thanks for reporting this error. It turned out to be an error in the error recovery in the type checker. Easily fixed; but it's not fixed in 2.03. Simon | From: Marc van Dongen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 14:06:39 +0100 (BST) | I just wanted to report that the erroneous

Re: Discrepancy

1997-04-30 Thread John C. Peterson
This is definitely a bug in the syntax of Haskell. I don't see any simple fix to the grammar except to change var to qvar in pat and apat. This probably isn't a good idea since it would allow local variables whihc shadow qualified imports or some such. We could add a line saying `qualifiers are

Re: Two more ghc-2.03 probs.

1997-04-30 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Alex Ferguson writes: > > A minor, but rather confusing, install discrepancy: it appears that > the makefiles put the "program executables" in "libexecdir", while > the driver script looks for them in "libdir". Don't quote me on this > but that seems to be where I was going awry. Making them t

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Yet another ghc-2.03 installation problem.

1997-04-30 Thread Alex Ferguson
2.03ish make depend seems to provoke errors like: mkdependHS: can't open directory /usr/local/lib/ghc-2.03/hslibs/ghc/imports make: *** [depend] Error 2 I haven't checked back with exactly what the makefiles do, so this is partly conjectural, but my diagnosis, and the basis on which I hacked a

Discrepancy

1997-04-30 Thread Ralf Hinze
Dear all, I stumbled across a subtle discrepancy between Hugs and GHC. After some thought I decided that the Glasgow Haskell Compiler is `buggy'. However, since the Report is not explicit about this issue (at least I did not find a clue) the case is probably not settled. Assume we have the follow

Re: Discrepancy

1997-04-30 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
| Hugs is perfectly happy with this. ghc, however, complains that `empty' | ist not in scope, which is in accordance with the rule (p. 58) saying | that `the names brought into scope must be prefixed by the name of the | imported module'. Hence I am forced to write: Good point! The report is a