
15 Jun
2007
15 Jun
'07
9:15 p.m.
I'm learning Haskell using Paul Hudak's book SOE. I'm using GHC 6.6 under Windows XP. GHC on Windows does not seem to come with HGL (is this correct?), so I used Gtk2HS, which contains a SOE implementation. I noticed that most programs hang when using GHCI, but they work fine with GHC. For example, the following mini program: import Graphics.SOE.Gtk main = runGraphics (openWindow "Stuck" (300,300) >>= closeWindow) completely hangs GHCI when running 'main', but using the GHC-created executable, a window correctly pops up and closes immediately, nicely returning to the command prompt. As GHCI is easier for experimenting, it would be nice if this worked. Thanks, Peter