RE: What's the '0' for in the version number?
Why is it GHC "5.02.2", "5.03" etc.? Wouldn't it be easier with "5.2.2", "5.3"?
I don't know, probably historical reasons: as far as I can remember, GHC's version numbers always had two digits after the decimal point. For historians, here is the announcement of the first release of GHC (0.06) archived thanks to Google: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=16945.9203281558%40dcs.glasgow.ac.u k&output=gplain Cheers, Simon
G'day all.
Why is it GHC "5.02.2", "5.03" etc.? Wouldn't it be easier with "5.2.2", "5.3"?
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
I don't know, probably historical reasons: as far as I can remember, GHC's version numbers always had two digits after the decimal point.
At least until you get into two-digit major version numbers, this way of doing things makes the filenames appear in version order when you type 'ls'. Cheers, Andrew Bromage
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