Marcin Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl) writes:
I would like to replace "with" and "dlet" with "let". But SimonPJ said he won't do it in ghc unless Hugs does it too, and Mark P Jones said he won't do it in Hugs now (without deep reasons: no people/hours to do that, and no plans to release next Hugs version this year).
I'd really, really like to see a fresh release of Hugs which includes the recently added support for imprecise exception handling (a la GHC). This is what HGL (and Fran) need to work with Hugs.
I volunteer to implement whatever implicit parameter syntax is decided in Hugs.
-- Alastair Reid reid@cs.utah.edu http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/
There is really going to be a fresh Hugs release, I'm not sure where this other information stems from. Mark isn't actively working on Hugs anymore, but a lot of other people (including Alastair, Sigbjorn, Jeff, and myself) are providing bug fixes and added features when time permits. And there really is a need for a new release because of this unfortunate incompatibility between the Feb 2001 release and HGL/Fran. The let/dlet/with issue is still open, but there's really nothing that precludes anyone from just making a decision. Alastair is most welcome to implement something that will make Hugs compatible with GHC. I think a suitable target date for a new release is somewhere in early June. All the best, Johan