
7 Jul
2003
7 Jul
'03
10:49 a.m.
Dear GHC users If you use GHC 6.0 on Win32, read on. Otherwise, don't bother. Some of you have already discovered that GHC 6.0 has a nasty bug: if you go ghci foo\Baz.hs and there is any error at all in Baz.hs, then GHC deletes the source file! This seems like excessive punishment for a type error. So far as I am aware, this only happens * on windows * with ghci (not ghc) * if you put back-slashes in the path There's no problem if you use forward slashes, or no slashes at all. This will be fixed in 6.0.1, which we'll put out in a couple of weeks, but meanwhile you might want to be aware of it. A bit of an egg-on-face job really. Simon