================================================================== __ __ __ __ ____ ___ || || || || || || ||__ ||___|| ||__|| ||__|| __|| ||---|| ___|| || || || || Version: January 2001 beta ================================================================== Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new beta release of Hugs98. This is a beta release that aims at giving as many people as possible a chance to react to the changes and additions that have recently been incorporated, before the next major version is released on February 14 2001. A list of the most important new features looks as follows: - A Foreign Function Interface closely modelled after the one provided by GHC. - Built-in, Hood-like debugging support. - A new syntax for recursive monad bindings. - A new GUI under Windows that doesn't consume all CPU time. See the release notes in the "docs" directory of the distribution for more information on some of these features. Send email to hugs-users-request@haskell.org to join the hugs-users mailing list. Bug reports should be sent to hugs-bugs@haskell.org. Send email to hugs-bugs-request@haskell.org to subscribe to the hugs-bugs list. The home page and download site for Hugs is at http://www.haskell.org/hugs/ Enjoy, Johan Nordlander PS Please don't confuse this release with latest (January 31) release of a new version of O'Hugs, the O'Haskell interpreter!