Haskell Report (again)
Folks Apart from a recent hiatus over module qualified names, the revised Haskell report is done. I sent round a message about the module-name question, which elicited no complaints, so I have incorporated the changes (see the bugs page, items dated [July 2001]). As ever, the draft is at http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/haskell98-revised I'm really hoping this is the final version, but experience suggests that whenever I say that someone discovers an entirely new question! So I'm putting it out again for you to pick over. Comments please. If I hear nothing by end July I'll freeze it then. Simon
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:50:08AM -0700, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
As ever, the draft is at
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/haskell98-revised
I'm really hoping this is the final version, but experience suggests that whenever I say that someone discovers an entirely new question! So I'm putting it out again for you to pick over.
I'm astonished no one has noticed this before, but in the library report for the Numeric library, the definition of showFFloat is buggy: showFFloat Nothing 0.02 "" goes into an infinite loop. (There is an auxiliary function 'f n s ds' which does not consider the case n < 0). This suggests that there needs to be a code review of formatRealFloat, which I have not yet done. --Dylan Thurston
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