RE: Compiling GHC in Windows, Mingw

2005-11-17 Thread Simon Marlow
On 17 November 2005 06:15, Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote: I tried to compile ghc from cvs head in windows, hosting and targetting mingw. When I got ghc to compile, it crashes while parsing (I putStrLn-debugged) package.conf, but only from installed position. Basically, somewhere inside

RE: kind inference

2005-11-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Yes it's deliberate. (Turned out to be easy and convenient.) Yes it goes beyond H98, so GHC types a few too many programs even in H98 mode. I guess I should document it. Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: kind inference

2005-11-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
one could. but GHC doesn't. feels low prio to me... | -Original Message- | From: Ross Paterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 17 November 2005 12:45 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: kind inference | | On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:32:37PM

Re: kind inference

2005-11-17 Thread Ross Paterson
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:46:31PM -, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: On 17 November 2005 12:45, Ross Paterson wrote: | I think the H98 rule is arbitrarily restrictive. But what about | going further and considering the occurrences of type constructors | in instance declarations, type signature

Re: Compiling GHC in Windows, Mingw

2005-11-17 Thread Esa Ilari Vuokko
On 11/17/05, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 November 2005 06:15, Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote: I haven't seen this, but I'm just updating my Windows build to try to reproduce. Does it happen with the stage1 or stage2 compiler? What version of GHC are you bootstrapping with? Stage2,

Re: Compiling GHC in Windows, Mingw

2005-11-17 Thread Esa Ilari Vuokko
On 11/17/05, Esa Ilari Vuokko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will start a new clean build, hope it goes away and I need to look into buying non-broken hardware... ;) The build failed and I sent mail about it on cvs-ghc list this time, even if something seemed to rip away my message and just leave

Re: kind inference

2005-11-17 Thread John Meacham
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:17:02PM +, Ross Paterson wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:46:31PM -, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: On 17 November 2005 12:45, Ross Paterson wrote: | I think the H98 rule is arbitrarily restrictive. But what about | going further and considering the