Haskell 98 Report: October release

2001-10-02 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
It's that time of the month! Another iteration of the Revised Haskell 98 Report! http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/haskell98-revised I'm happy to say that my orbit is diminishing in radius and I shall shortly turn into a black hole. Seriously, the main things I've done this time

WICS'2002: Extended Deadline

2001-10-02 Thread Dr. Muhammad Sarfraz
Apologies if you receive multiple copies * Due to a number of requests and some other reasons, the Deadline is extended. * WICS'2002 The Fourth

Re: Haskell 98 Report: October release

2001-10-02 Thread Malcolm Wallace
> the main things I've done this time is to > * revise yet again the wording about export lists Two of the changes to Export Decls (Section 5.2) now conflict with each other. [Oct 2001] "The form `module M' abbreviates the set of all entities whose unqualified name, e, is in scope, and

Haskell tutorial

2001-10-02 Thread Simon Marlow
Just spotted this Haskell tutorial at IBM developerWorks (free registration required): http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-b ytitle/9A31A3C4A0CE683E86256AD400822942?open&t=grl,l=805,t=haskell (hope that URL doesn't get mangled by Exchange...). Looks like it's

RE: GHC doesn't compile Happy example

2001-10-02 Thread Simon Marlow
Carlos Scheidegger writes: > First, the Happy example uses some functions that exist in > Hugs but not in GHC, like isAlpha, isDigit and isSpace (I think so, > at least, because i type ':t isAlpha' in GHCi and get > 'variable not in > scope'), so I created a module called CharClasses wi

Re: Haskell 98 Report: October release

2001-10-02 Thread Iavor S. Diatchki
hello, this was a bug in the report, the "B" import should not be qualified. it has been fixed in the latest version of the report. > [Sept 2001] > "For example > > module A ( module B, C.f, g ) where -- an invalid module > import qualified B(f,g) > import qualified