Announce: nhc98-1.0pre19



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Malcolm Wallace (malcolm-nhc@cs.york.ac.uk)
Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:24:51 +0100


Announcement ------------ A new pre-release of the nhc98 Haskell Compiler, nhc98-1.0pre19, is now available in the usual place: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/nhc98/ Changes between pre18 and pre19 are: * New: "hmake interactive" - a brand new Hugs-like interpreter for interactive development. * New: Implementations of the standard Time and CPUTime libraries. All standard libraries are now implemented in normal and profiling versions. * Big Change: Until recently, the normal/profiling and tracing versions of the Prelude and Libraries have been kept in separate source trees. The normal set is Haskell'98 compliant, the tracing set was 1.3 and incomplete. We have now merged the two sets so that all the libraries which actually build for tracing are genuinely Haskell'98. There are still several libraries that don't compile for tracing yet, but this is nevertheless a big step forward to improving the tracing experience. * Change: The trace browser command has now been renamed <tt>rtb</tt> for "Redex Trail Browser". * Bugfix: IO.hgetLine was broken. We are currently building up to a full release which will contain even more tracing/debugging goodies, so this is an interim pre-release to try to shake out any remaining bugs. We'd be especially pleased for users to test out many of the recently introduced facilities like "hmake interactive", and the primitive FFI, and let us know of any problems there. Regards, Malcolm


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