Re: Bug or not-yet-supported?

2008-03-17 Thread Niklas Broberg
It is supposed to work in 6.9. I am sorry, but type families are not an officially supported feature in 6.8.x, and hence, any bug fixes that requires invasive changes in the type checker will not be merged into the 6.8 branch (and by now the 6.8 and 6.9 code bases diverged quite a bit).

Re: scope of header files

2008-03-17 Thread John Meacham
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:56:33PM +, Ross Paterson wrote: Because the Ptr type doesn't indicate const-ness (perhaps it should). Even many of the C people think adding const to the language was a bad idea.. for instance, is strchr(3) const char *strchr(const char *s, int c); or char

Success report: Leopard powerpc

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
I used both ghc-6.6.1 and macports to create a working ghc-6.8.2 on OS X 10.5.2 on a powerpc G4 laptop. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: Success report: Leopard powerpc

2008-03-17 Thread Gregory Wright
Excellent news. Thanks to you and Christian for trying it out. -Greg On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Chris Kuklewicz wrote: I used both ghc-6.6.1 and macports to create a working ghc-6.8.2 on OS X 10.5.2 on a powerpc G4 laptop. ___

Re: Success report: Leopard powerpc

2008-03-17 Thread Alfonso Acosta
On 3/17/08, Chris Kuklewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used both ghc-6.6.1 and macports to create a working ghc-6.8.2 on OS X 10.5.2 on a powerpc G4 laptop. Great! It would be awsome if a PPC/Lepoard installation package was made available from GHC's page.