Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-30 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear GHC team, for your convenience, I have filed individual bugs about the build errors: Am Freitag, den 23.12.2011, 14:54 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner: the build system seems to be quite confused on arch/os-combinations besides {i386,amd64}/linux. All these worked fine with 7.2.2:

7.4.1-cand for docon

2011-12-30 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Dear GHC team, The archive http://botik.ru/pub/local/Mechveliani/ghcBugs/ghc741candQuest.zip contains the source of the docon-2.12 application. ghc-7.0.1 compiles it and runs the test successfully. ghc-7.4.0.20111219 cannot compile it. 1. It requires to add Show a to Integral a in

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew Farkas-Dyck
On 30/12/2011, Andriy Polischuk quux...@gmail.com wrote: Yet another idea: Consider using '\' as record access operator. No conflicts with anything at all, and, moreover, it really looks like hierarchical access. Reminds of filesystems though. I hope this is a joke. Matthew Farkas-Dyck

Re: 7.4.1-cand for docon

2011-12-30 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello Serge, On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 07:55:05PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: ... Has the status of the module Random changed in ghc-7.4.1 ? Between ghc-7.0.4 and ghc-7.4.1, we find http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/release-7-2-1.html that says: 1.5.12.22.

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew Farkas-Dyck
Certainly not no conflicts: lambda expressions. On 30/12/2011, Colin Adams colinpaulad...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 December 2011 15:55, Matthew Farkas-Dyck strake...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/12/2011, Andriy Polischuk quux...@gmail.com wrote: Yet another idea: Consider using '\' as record

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Andriy Polischuk
You're right, i should have written ambiguities instead. That was not joke, just i somehow didn't notice Chris Smith answer. However, I think, there are some drawbacks in using dot for that in comparison with qualified imports access. The latter is easier to distinguish from composition by eye,

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew Farkas-Dyck
On 30/12/2011, Andriy Polischuk quux...@gmail.com wrote: You're right, i should have written ambiguities instead. That was not joke, just i somehow didn't notice Chris Smith answer. Hm. I though at first that if backslash were the selection operator, then there must be programs of unclear

Re: 7.4.1-cand for docon

2011-12-30 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 07:55:05PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: Dear GHC team, The archive http://botik.ru/pub/local/Mechveliani/ghcBugs/ghc741candQuest.zip contains the source of the docon-2.12 application. ghc-7.0.1 compiles it and runs the test successfully.