On May 30, 2010, at 23:46 , Paul Higham wrote:
just sends me in circles so I am appealing to you for some hints as to how to proceed.  I already have XCode 3.1 installed and I have just updated my MacPorts installation but now I confess I am a bit stuck.

You need to use the MacPorts method of installation.  "sudo port install haskell-platform"

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