Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2012-01-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 03/01/2012 16:54, Tristan Ravitch wrote: This might be the expected behavior but I'll ask anyway. I have what seems to be a legitimate stack overflow (due to excessive recursion and not the evaluation of a big thunk). The stack trace from -xc only shows about 13 calls on the stack (with

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2012-01-03 Thread Simon Marlow
On 21/12/2011 22:36, Roman Cheplyaka wrote: * Ian Lynaghig...@earth.li [2011-12-21 18:29:21+] * The profiling and hpc implementations have been merged and overhauled. Visible changes include renaming of profiling flags:

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2012-01-03 Thread Tristan Ravitch
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:00:58AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: On 21/12/2011 22:36, Roman Cheplyaka wrote: * Ian Lynaghig...@earth.li [2011-12-21 18:29:21+] * The profiling and hpc implementations have been merged and overhauled. Visible changes include renaming of profiling flags:

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:

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-29 Thread Stefan Holdermans
Lauri wrote: Sorts are typically constants, and there are usually a finite amount of them, each presenting a level of the type system. Indeed. The literature on generic programming sometimes uses the term superkind to refer to the sort of BOX; see, for example, Ralf Hinze and Johan

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-28 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Donnerstag, den 22.12.2011, 00:02 +0100 schrieb Bas van Dijk: On 21 December 2011 19:29, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: * There is a new feature constraint kinds (-XConstraintKinds): http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/docs/html/users_guide/constraint-kind.html I'm trying

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| By the way, is there a reason behind the fact that “Constraint” uses the | ordinary case, while “BOX” has all three letters capitalized? Wouldn’t | it be more sensible if it were “Box” instead of “BOX”? Only that BOX is a sort (currently the one and only sort), whereas Constraint is a kind.

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-28 Thread José Pedro Magalhães
Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 13:51, Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks1...@acme.softbase.orgwrote: Am Mittwoch, den 28.12.2011, 12:48 + schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: | By the way, is there a reason behind the fact that “Constraint” uses the | ordinary case, while “BOX” has all three letters

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
7.4.1 Release Candidate 1 Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 13:51, Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks1...@acme.softbase.orgmailto:g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 28.12.2011, 12:48 + schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: | By the way, is there a reason behind the fact that Constraint uses

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-28 Thread Lauri Alanko
Quoting Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org: Am Mittwoch, den 28.12.2011, 12:48 + schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: Only that BOX is a sort (currently the one and only sort), whereas Constraint is a kind. I'm not sure that BOX should ever be displayed to users. Okay, this makes sense

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-23 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Antoine Latter | Sent: 23 December 2011 04:21 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1 | | On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: | | We are pleased to announce the first release

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 21.12.2011, 18:29 + schrieb Ian Lynagh: Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! the build system seems to be quite confused on arch/os-combinations besides {i386,amd64}/linux. All these worked fine with 7.2.2:

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-23 Thread Antoine Latter
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Yes, it's expected; it's also the behaviour of GHC 6.12 etc. Here what is happening.  You define        result = undefined What type does it get?  In 6.12, and 7.4, it gets type        result :: forall b. b So

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-23 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| So the 'where' binding in the following does not get generalized | because it could not have been written at the top level, correct? The other way round. 'where' bindings that could have been written at top level *are* generalised; ones that could not are *not* generalised. See Which

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-23 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: | So the 'where' binding in the following does not get generalized | because it could not have been written at the top level, correct? The other way round.  'where' bindings that could have been written at top

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-23 Thread Antoine Latter
One more code sample which compiled with GHC 7.2.1 and does not with the new RC: {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts, FlexibleInstances, FunctionalDependencies, MultiParamTypeClasses, RankNTypes, UndecidableInstances, TypeFamilies #-} newtype MyMonadT m a = MyMonadT (m a) class MyClass b m | m - b

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Conor McBride
Hi On 21 Dec 2011, at 22:41, Johan Tibell wrote: Built a bunch of packages using the 64-bit compiler on OS X Lion. Works fine. I'm a bit of a numpty when it comes to this sort of thing. I tried to install this version ghc-7.4.0.20111219-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 under Leopard,

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:44, Conor McBride co...@strictlypositive.orgwrote: under Leopard, and got this far bash-3.2$ sudo ./configure Password: checking for path to top of build tree... dyld: unknown required load command 0x8022 configure: error: cannot determine current

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Sean Leather
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 16:19, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:44, Conor McBride wrote: under Leopard, and got this far bash-3.2$ sudo ./configure Password: checking for path to top of build tree... dyld: unknown required load command 0x8022 configure: error:

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Conor McBride
On 22 Dec 2011, at 16:08, Sean Leather wrote: I've built it from source (ghc-7.4.0.20111219-src.tar.bz2) on Leopard. I'd be happy to contribute my build if somebody tells me what to do. I hope somebody who knows does just that. Meanwhile, that sounds good to try for myself. My flat's a

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Conor McBride
On 22 Dec 2011, at 16:08, Sean Leather wrote: I've built it from source (ghc-7.4.0.20111219-src.tar.bz2) on Leopard. I'd be happy to contribute my build if somebody tells me what to do. I had a crack at this and got quite warm, literally and metaphorically. But, no, I didn't quite get

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Sean Leather
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 22:25, Conor McBride wrote: On 22 Dec 2011, at 16:08, Sean Leather wrote: I've built it from source (ghc-7.4.0.20111219-src.tar.**bz2) on Leopard. I'd be happy to contribute my build if somebody tells me what to do. I had a crack at this and got quite warm,

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Antoine Latter
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.4.1:    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.4.1-rc1/ This includes the source tarball, installers for OS X and Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux,

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-21 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li [2011-12-21 18:29:21+] * The profiling and hpc implementations have been merged and overhauled. Visible changes include renaming of profiling flags: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/docs/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html#id589412 and

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-21 Thread Johan Tibell
Built a bunch of packages using the 64-bit compiler on OS X Lion. Works fine. -- Johan ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-21 Thread Bas van Dijk
On 21 December 2011 19:29, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote:  * There is a new feature constraint kinds (-XConstraintKinds):       http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/docs/html/users_guide/constraint-kind.html I'm trying to run the ConstraintKinds example from the documentation: {-#

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-21 Thread José Pedro Magalhães
Hi Bas, On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 23:02, Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com wrote: On 21 December 2011 19:29, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: * There is a new feature constraint kinds (-XConstraintKinds): http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/docs/html/users_guide/constraint-kind.html

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-21 Thread Bas van Dijk
On 22 December 2011 00:10, José Pedro Magalhães j...@cs.uu.nl wrote: Hi Bas, On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 23:02, Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com wrote: On 21 December 2011 19:29, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote:  * There is a new feature constraint kinds (-XConstraintKinds):