hello, Andrew J Bromage wrote:
... What H98 does is it defines a language for which separate compilation is at best extremely difficult and at worst virtually impossible without extra information which is not part of H98 (such as GHC's hi-boot files). ...
why do you think separate compilation is difficult to achieve in Haskell 98? as simon pointed out, GHC does it and has been doing it for a long time. dealing with mutually recusrive modules is i think a separate issue. even though GHC doesn't quite do it, it is certainly possible, and not very difficult to do. in fact we have it implemented in one of the projects i am currently working on. hopefully one day GHC will also dispense with the hi-boot files. bye iavor -- ================================================== | Iavor S. Diatchki, Ph.D. student | | Department of Computer Science and Engineering | | School of OGI at OHSU | | http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~diatchki | ==================================================