[Hugs-users] Fwd: Hugs'06

my first letter :) first, bugs. i attached two programs, which make problems under WinHugs/Feb04. The first shows error in `poke` for Word64 values, and second even don't compiles because of problems in de-sugaring parallel comprehensions second, my greatest gratitudes for such great program, to all the Hugs team. I write program which working version is compiled with GHC, but GHC (and even GHCi) is somewhat slow and unfriendly environment. Hugs greatest compliance with GHC make developing my program much faster, and its WinHugs environment are much more user-friendly than ghci. but after several months of developing base part of my program with Hugs+GHC i have to switch to GHC only and below is a list of incompatibilities/inconveniencies which cause this. If you can fix at least some of them in next Hugs release, i will be very glad 1) lack of preprocessor in WinHugs. i know that i can setup makefile to do this, but this is not convenient. preprocessor is absolutely needed for me to mask differences between GHC and Hugs 2) lack of hGetBuf/hPutBuf operations 3) monomorphism restriction 4) inability to create <> functions, so i can call back from C to Haskell. but i think that this is huge task and i personally can debug most parts of my programs without it while writing the last sentence, i scanned Hugs docs directory for FFI word and found that import wrappers are supported, but how it works is not documented. can i request a section on using FFI in Hugs docs? i can even write small part of it, describing compilation of foreign imports in windows Hugs several more complaints about WinHugs environment: 1) mouse-clicking on the scroll bar at the right must, at Windows standards, scroll whole page up/down, but WinHugs scrolls only one line at a time :( 2) easy-to-open window with list of commands previously executed, with ability to reexecute them or just put to cmdline, will be very helpful. if i issue many different commands, it is more useful, than scrolling through them with Up/Down keys 3) calling editor, when error encountered, with positioning it on the line with error 4) F1 (Help) command loads hugs.hlp while my win xp can show more user-friendly hugs98.chm -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com