====================================================================== __ __ __ __ ____ ___ || || || || || || ||__ ||___|| ||__|| ||__|| __|| ||---|| ___|| || || || || Version: Feb 2001 ====================================================================== Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new release of Hugs98. This is a major release that incorporates bug fixes as well as several new features and enhancements that have been developed for Hugs over the last year. It is announced with the intentions that it will remain a stable and lightweight implementation of Haskell 98 + extensions for some considerable time. 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. - Parallel list comprehensions, a.k.a. zip-comprehensions. - A new syntax for recursive monad bindings. - A new GUI under Windows that doesn't consume all CPU time. - Support for the MacOS platform integrated into the main distriution. - Corrections of all bugs reported for the January 2001 beta release. See the release notes in the "docs" directory of the distribution for more information on the new language 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 [Hugs maintainer]