I'm afraid this fix didn't make it into the 6.4 branch, but the double error (which is bad) is certainly fixed in the HEAD Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | Andrew Pimlott | Sent: 21 October 2005 20:45 | To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help using QuickCheck | | On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:09:41PM +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote: | > Many thanks! I wish I had remembered that I had this kind of problem | > before: ghc reports two errors, of which the /second/ one is the 'real' | > problem and the first one is just a by-product. | | The case in your original message is particularly annoying, but at least | it only affects ghci. I thought it had been fixed[1], but it is still | present in 6.4.1, so perhaps it's waiting for 6.5? | | > This practically never | > happens with C compilers which I (must, sadly) use every day and thus I | > always tend to disregard all error messages but the first. | | I generally find that most of GHC's errors are real, ie they don't | change much when I fix earlier errors. (It seems to report only one | error per function to achieve that?) It's fun to work through the dozen | reported mistakes, then compile again to see how many I actually fixed. | :-) | | Andrew | | [1] | http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1156554&group_i d=8032&atid=108032 | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe