Re: SVN binding with Haskell

2008-10-24 Thread Christian Maeder
just to correct a false impression. One part of my problem (point 3. below) was a wrong hsc2hs program that was found in my PATH by accident (that also caused http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2008-October/003980.html) Cheers Christian Christian Maeder wrote: Hi, I've install

Re: could ghci debugger search for free variables better?

2008-10-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Peter Hercek wrote: May be my approach to debugging with ghci is wrong but in about half of the time I find ghci (as a debugger) almost useless. The reason is the limited way it can resolve identifiers. I can examine the free variables in the selected expression and nothing else. Well, I

Re: could ghci debugger search for free variables better?

2008-10-24 Thread Peter Hercek
Simon Marlow wrote: We thought about this when working on the debugger, and the problem is that to make the debugger retain all the variables that are in scope rather than just free in the expression adds a lot of overhead, and it fundamentally changes the structure of the generated code: