John Velman wrote:
I'm trying to test TclHaskell under Hugs98-Nov2003, compiled from source.
My current problem with getting it to work seems to be a failure to load the function intToWord32.
"intToWord32" and friends have been deprecated more than 3 years ago, and recent Haskell platforms have dropped the support for it completely. You can easily use the more general "fromIntegral" as a replacement.
[...] So ':names' thinks there is such a thing, but the loader doesn't?
Yep, it's only an internal function in that module.
[...] I'm having trouble finding this syntax in the documentation
The "primitive" keyword is used for Hugs internals only. It means that the runtime system has a C function registered with the given name. Think of "primitive" as the glue between C and Haskell. It has got nothing to do with any filenames.
[...] (By the way -- I decided to try TclHaskell because it seemed to be the simplest way to get a graphical interface to an application going! Any advice here will be appreciated as well.)
It really depends on your GUI needs, http://haskell.org/libraries/#guigs offers a lot options in this area. Cheers, S.