Brent Yorgey wrote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20081108 Issue 92 - November 08, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GHC version 6.10.1. Ian Lynagh [2]announced the release of [3]GHC version 6.10.1! This new major release features a number of significant changes, including wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation in record syntax; generalised quasi-quotes; generalised SQL-like list comprehensions; view patterns; a complete reimplementation of type families; parallel garbage collection; a new extensible exception framework; a more user-friendly API; included Data Parallel Haskell (DPH); and more! See [4]the full release notes for more information.
Were it not for this message, I might never have noticed! :-} (Presumably the main "announcement" was on one of the other Haskell lists...) Anyway, I don't see it anywhere in the release notes, but I get the vibe that type families are supposed to be "fully working" now. Is that correct? If so, why no mention anywhere? Also, the release notes tantelisingly hint that the long-awaited parallel-array stuff is finally working in this release, but I can't find any actual description of how to use it. All the DPH stuff seems on the wiki was last updated many months ago. You would have thought that such a big deal would be well-documented. It must have taken enough effort to get it to work! You'd think somebody would want to shout about it...