Re: GHC and Haskell 98

2011-06-18 Thread Simon Sin
Simon Peyton-Jones, if you say: Under Plan A, some Hackage packages will become un-compilable, and will require source code changes to fix them. I do not have any idea how many Hackage packages would fail in this way. If you don't have any idea how many Hackage packages would

URL for GHC 7.0.3

2011-06-15 Thread Simon Sin
hi, GHC freaks, I tried to set up GHCi 7.0.3 and the latest haskell-platform on my new buntu 11.04 installation. I can successfully did it for 6.10.3 by following the instruction from one web post (Spork Code). Then I following the URL given by another web post to 'wget' the 7.0.3. but get an

Re: URL for GHC 7.0.3

2011-06-15 Thread Simon Sin
Hi, Antoine Latter and Daniel Fisher. Thanks your direction. My old URLs are: 1.www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.3/ghc-7.0.3-i386.tar.bz2 for the ghc package; and 2. hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.2.0/haskell-platform-2010.2.0.0.tar.gz. I'll try your instruction on my new portable when it is

help

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Sin
Hi! I'm new to Haskell. Following someone's notes, I was doing this doubleMe x = x + x. I did this two days ago and it worked. But I try to do it today, I got an error parse error on input '=' , This is rather inconsistent and should not happen in a computer compiler (i.e. day one works, day