The current draft of the Haskell 1.3 Libraries is now available for public comment at ftp://ftp.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/pub/haskell/lib-28-Oct-96.{ps,dvi} in either PostScript or DVI format (HTML will follow). The document defines the required libraries for conforming Haskell 1.3 implementations: Ratio -- Rationals, as in Haskell 1.2 Complex -- Complex Numbers, ditto Ix -- Indexing Operations, ditto Array -- Array operations, ditto List -- Old and new list operations Maybe -- Operations on the Maybe type Char -- Operations on characters, mainly character-kind (isLower etc) Monad -- Monadic utility functions IO -- More advanced Input/Output Directory -- Operations on directories System -- Operating system interaction (system, getEnv, exit etc.) Time -- Date and Time Locale -- Local conventions (date/time only at present) CPUTime -- CPU Time usage Random -- Random number generation on Integer Bit -- Bit manipulation Natural -- Fixed-precision natural numbers Signed -- Fixed-precision signed numbers Most of the comments that have been made on previous versions have been acted upon. If you have read previous versions of the library, you may notice the omission of the Posix library. I intend to revise this and make it available as an optional library in the near future. Please send comments on these libraries either to me, or to the Haskell Committee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by November 30th 1996 (I will take late comments into account as far as possible, but may need to delay these for future reviews of the libraries). Assuming normal levels of change, I aim to have this version of the libraries stabilised by the end of the year. Our long-term goal is to provide a repository for these libraries at Glasgow, which will allow new libraries to be contributed and existing ones to be worked on remotely. The repository should be mirrored at Yale, Chalmers, and perhaps elsewhere. To help future-proof these libraries, we are considering adopting an SGML document standard, probably based on that used for ML '96. I hope to release details of this at the same time as the libraries are stabilised. Regards, Kevin ---------- Division of Computer Science, Tel: +44-1334 463241 (Direct) School of Mathematical Fax: +44-1334 463278 and Computational Sciences, URL: http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~kh/kh.html University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS.