nhc98-1.16 ---------- http://www.haskell.org/nhc98 We announce a new release, 1.16, of the Haskell compiler nhc98, with the following new features and bugfixes of note. * nhc98 once again builds on Windows (Cygwin) with ghc. * nhc98 now works correctly in the presence of gcc-3.x. * A large subset of the 'base' package of hierarchical libraries is now included in the build. * The primitive FFI mechanism has been updated to match the latest official spec, and the full Foreign libraries are also included (in hierarchical form). * The library function List.sortBy now uses a stable O(n log n) mergesort. * Numerous other small fixes, including revisions to the Haskell'98 standard. * The website is now hosted at haskell.org * Our CVS repository is also now hosted at cvs.haskell.org Regards, The nhc98 team at York