I read Simon's reply to Brian Kellar. Brian attempted to compile the following program and got a segmentation fault | {- metatest.hs -} | import Splices | | main = do | print $(len "foo") | | | | {- Splices.hs -} | | module Splices where | | import Language.Haskell.THSyntax | | len s = [| length s |] I attempted to compile the same program using the snapshot from the 5th January (before Simon made the fixes to make this program compile) and found that I got a different error. I am running a different distro of Linux though (Debian). My error message was ----------- Compiling Splices ( Splices.hs, ./Splices.o ) Compiling Main ( Main.hs, ./Main.o ) Loading package base ... linking ... done. Loading package haskell98 ... linking ... done. Loading package haskell-src ... linking ... done. ghc-5.05.20030105: internal error: stg_ap_v_ret Please report this as a bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org, or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/ make: *** [all] Error 254 ----------- I don't know if this is useful or not but I thought I'd better post. For various reasons I am unable to build GHC from CVS sources so I have been relying on the snapshots provided. I will try compiling this program once the 01062003 (or 01072003) snapshot comes out. Sean