RE: Forthcoming 4.06

2000-01-18 Thread Frank A. Christoph
After a monstrous fight against the versionitis of jadetex and the DocBook tools, I've finally managed to build the installation guide and the user's guide. But there were tons of warnings like: jade:/var/lib/sgml/CATALOG.docbk31:24:0:W: DTDDECL catalog entries are not supported Should

RE: Forthcoming 4.06

2000-01-18 Thread Frank A. Christoph
Or you can use OpenJade 1.3 (http://peano.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/jade-cvs/), which I think supports DTDDECL. Oops, I take it back. The OpenSP 1.4 prerelease supports DTDDECL, but not 1.3, and OpenJade 1.4 hasn't been released in any form yet (except CVS). --FAC

RE: Happy v1.6.

1999-09-30 Thread Frank A. Christoph
Since ghc-4.04 confuguration insists one has Happy v1.6, has this actually been released? I see no link to it from the usually suspect sites. If it's Imminent, can a make the modest suggestion that it have a standalone makefile in it? Having to slot it into a ghc source build tree has

RE: Santa's error correction

1999-09-14 Thread Frank A. Christoph
Please, do *not* put error correction into ghc! I think error correction is one of the Classic Bad Ideas for a compiler. It's much better to focus on providing understandable error messages: when the user knows what the compiler thinks is wrong, it's usually not so hard to fix the error.

RE: downloading Haskell

1999-09-10 Thread Frank A. Christoph
[This question more properly belongs on glasgow-haskell-users, so I cc'd there.] Rory Leigh wrote: Could you help me please; I'm looking to possibly be able to download a Haskell compiler in as simple a way as possible (preferably without zip files -- if possible -- or if so,together with

RE: Enjoy the silence

1999-07-28 Thread Frank A. Christoph
IIRC, this has already been discussed quickly some time ago, but anyway: To conform more with the rest of the *nix world and decrease the confusion of my students, I'd like GHC to be less verbose by default. IMHO the following messages should not be issued without any commandline flags:

Xlib IDL for H/Direct?

1999-03-25 Thread Frank A. Christoph
Has anyone created an IDL file for Xlib? Alternatively, has anyone created one for H/Direct? I know that someone is working on GTK, but I'm interested in Xlib specifically. Also, I'm aware of Sigbjorn's Xlib interface in Haggis, but that one's reportedly still for GHC 0.29. :( BTW, it's not

Request for arrow syntax

1999-02-03 Thread Frank A. Christoph
Would it be asking too much to have Ross Paterson's syntax (or something close) for John Hughes' arrows implemented in GHC 4.02? I'm dying to fool around with it. --FC

Re: 2 questions: CVS Win32

1999-02-03 Thread Frank A. Christoph
I wrote: First, a CVS question. I am a real CVS novice so bear with me. I finally managed to use CVS to get the current 4.02 GHC distribution (and to compile it! :). Now, I understand how one can create recursive diffs between versions, but if I understand correctly, not every change

2 questions: CVS Win32

1999-02-01 Thread Frank A. Christoph
First, a CVS question. I am a real CVS novice so bear with me. I finally managed to use CVS to get the current 4.02 GHC distribution (and to compile it! :). Now, I understand how one can create recursive diffs between versions, but if I understand correctly, not every change counts as a

RE: -O,(NO)INLINE

1998-12-18 Thread Frank A. Christoph
Simon Marlow wrote: You should either compile the whole lot with -O, or not at all. Really? What are the consequences if you don't? It doesn't lead to incorrectly linked code, does it? I can see that, even if you compiled module A with -O, and then tried to call some functions of A from

RE: 4.02 and Haskell 98

1998-12-18 Thread Frank A. Christoph
When will 4.02 (by which I mean the next stable release) be released? and Will it be Haskell 98-compliant, or is that going to be in a future release? We'll try to put out a source release before Xmas. Why are you interested? Scoped tyvars? No, I just want a reliable compiler with

Unicode support

1998-04-23 Thread Frank A. Christoph
What is the status of the lastest release (3.01) with respect to Unicode support? Is it possible to write source in Unicode? How wide are characters? Do the I/O library functions support it? etc. --FC

3.00 is a minor release?

1998-02-05 Thread Frank A. Christoph
Under the "Getting GHC" heading on the GHC web page, version 3.00 is listed as the most recent minor release whereas 2.10 is listed as the most recent major release. Is this an error, or is there something to the definition of minor/major which I haven't caught on to? --FC