Re: Confusing error message in case of layout-related syntax erro r

1999-09-03 Thread Mark Utting
Simon wrote: I know about this one, but haven't got around to fixing it yet. The parse error is on a semicolon generated by the layout system, as you probably guessed, which is why there's no token available to print in the error message. Any thoughts on what a suitable error message should

RE: Confusing error message in case of layout-related syntax error

1999-09-03 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Main.hs:3: parse error on input ';' (inserted by layout) Incomplete expression on previous line or incorrect indentation of the current line. I think Manuel's suggestion is a definite improvement here. For interest, another Haskell compiler, nhc98, gives the message 4:5

Re: Grumbles about building GHC from the CVS repository

1999-09-03 Thread Michael Weber
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 14:33:57 +0200, George Russell wrote: (1) The repository is very puritanical about having to have autoconf and happy installed. Since the chances of my wanting to muck about with the configuration file/GHC parsers are nill, why not include the configure

post-doc position to suit Haskell enthusiast

1999-09-03 Thread Colin . Runciman
Post-doctoral research in functional programming: two-year funded position available; applications invited. Topic: tracing lazy functional computations. When: starting ASAP (at latest by 31 March 2000).

Havoc Pennington on Haskell

1999-09-03 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Next_Part(Fri_Sep__3_12:26:59_1999_809)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yesterday, I stumbled over the following comment on the reading list of Havoc Pennington, Red Hat employee and author of a book on GTK+ and a book on GNOME programming: The