haskell.org mirror in the UK

1998-12-22 Thread Kevin Hammond
Dear Haskellers, We would like to announce that we are mirroring the haskell.org pages at St Andrews http://www-fp.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/haskell.org/ The mirror is updated overnight. If you are in the UK, using the mirror should help reduce transatlantic traffic (and charges!). We would

Re: Haskell 98 draft report

1998-12-22 Thread Matthew Donadio
Hans Aberg wrote: Thinking of it, "round" should probably be viewed as a method to convert a float to another float of less precision (and not a conversion to an integer) To be picky, rounding a fixed point value to less bits is a very common procedure (at least it is in the DSP world) to

RE: instance bug(?)

1998-12-22 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Jeff found a nice bug here. GHC tries not to import too many instance decls because then it has to import the types they mention, and that means more instance decls and so on. But here, an instance decl used a type synonym, and did so in the interface file; but in the importing module that

gmake boot: #error related to obtaining memory

1998-12-22 Thread Arne Glenstrup
Hi, Still trying to do gmake boot on our hp700pa2ux10 architecture---now with ghc-2.10 binaries installed---I am a little disturbed by the following #error which cropped up during the build. Should I just ignore it?

RE: gmake boot: #error related to obtaining memory

1998-12-22 Thread Simon Marlow
Still trying to do gmake boot on our hp700pa2ux10 architecture---now with ghc-2.10 binaries installed---I am a little disturbed by the following #error which cropped up during the build. Should I just ignore it? I'm afraid we haven't ported GHC 4.xx to HP boxes yet, and that's why you're

Greencard with Hugs?

1998-12-22 Thread Mark Utting
I've just tried to install the latest version of Greencard (I want to interface Hugs to mSQL -- a lightweight database server). The installation instructions say: Compilation and install instructions for Green Card: 0. Set the FOR_SYSTEM