On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ian Lynagh
Hi all,
We are pleased to (finally!) announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.12.1:
http://darcs.haskell.org/~ghc/dist/6.12.1rc1/
As well as the source tarball: ghc-6.12.0.20091010-src.tar.bz2 there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. For the Linux binary distributions, the "linux-n" tarballs are recommended over the "linux" tarballs.
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!
Thanks Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
I'll try to get this up in a bug report on trac as soon as it's back up, but in case I forget, here's the problem: The attached Demo.hs compiles on 6.10, but not on 6.12rc1 The output --ddump-splices for 6.10:
Demo.hs:1:0: Demo.hs:1:0: Splicing declarations test ======> Demo.hs:6:2-5 myFunction[aLQ] = Demo2.testFun [] Ok, modules loaded: Demo2, Main. <<<
In 6.12rc1:
Demo.hs:1:0: Demo.hs:1:0: Splicing declarations test ======> Demo.hs:6:2-5 myFunction[aNX] = testFun ""
Demo.hs:6:2: Couldn't match expected type `[Char]' against inferred type `Char' Expected type: [String] Inferred type: [Char] In the first argument of `testFun', namely `""' In the expression: testFun "" Failed, modules loaded: Demo2. <<< Note that what was spliced in as [] is now being spliced in as "", which is incorrect. Antoine