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However, only Hugs implements this part of the spec at the moment.
It will be implemented in GHC before the next major release. I'm not intentionally dragging my heels on this one, just haven't got around to it yet :-) Cheers, Simon
"Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> writes:
However, only Hugs implements this part of the spec at the moment.
It will be implemented in GHC before the next major release. I'm not intentionally dragging my heels on this one, just haven't got around to it yet :-)
And of course the ghc-5.04 branch will keep the existing (non-standard) signature, because there are no API changes permitted in bug-fix releases. Regards, Malcolm
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