Re: bundled libraries in ghc

2013-09-04 Thread Jens Petersen
On 3 September 2013 23:11, Stephen Paul Weber singpol...@singpolyma.netwrote: Somebody claiming to be Jens Petersen wrote: The libraries in question here are haskeline, terminfo, and xhtml. Are those libraries needed by GHCI? libdir/bin/ghc is linked to haskeline and terminfo. ghc-pkg is

RE: Question about correct GHC-API use for type checking (or zonking, or tidying)

2013-09-04 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
The id you are getting is a monomorphic id, with a type like a-a, not the polymorphic forall a. a-a. You don't want to go round arbitrarily creating a new Id with the same unique but a different type. I have no idea what would happen then. It's hard for me to understand just what you code is