[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell snapshot for i386-*-{linuxaout,solaris2}

1995-12-21 Thread Will Partain
A binary-only from-working-sources no-guarantees snapshot of the Glasgow Haskell compiler (GHC) for i386-unknown-linuxaout and i386-unknown-solaris2 platforms is now available from ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/ghc-0.27-.tar.gz. (The files ghc-0.26-docs-and-examples.tar.gz and

Re: 1.3 PreludeList _____By functions' restricted type

1995-12-21 Thread Philip Wadler
Alistair, I agree with Mike Gunter on this one. -- P > Mike Gunter writes: >The By functions in the 1.3 PreludeList (elemBy, deleteBy, etc.) >all take ``equality'' predicates with type a -> a -> Bool. Most of >these functions (with no change in definition that I see in a quick

__By functions in Haskell Prelude. Reply.

1995-12-21 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Mike Gunter writes: The By functions in the 1.3 PreludeList (elemBy, deleteBy, etc.) all take ``equality'' predicates with type a -> a -> Bool. Most of these functions (with no change in definition that I see in a quick check) could take predicates with type a -> b > Bool (with a