
Hi all, We at Macquarie Uni have been working for some time on handheld implementations of Haskell. Our most recent efforts have focused on nhc98 and we have a "mostly working" version of the nhc98 runtime for Palm OS. Our aim is to provide a testbed for DSL-based specification of handheld applications. I am excited by the potential that yhc offers for making handheld Haskell easier to build and work with. yhc seems to offer a great deal for our project (e.g., portability, cross platform bytecode, less/no reliance on C linker). So, my question to you is: Would you advise active use of the yhc code as a basis for our handheld work? Is it stable enough to be useful for this at this point? We can probably put up with deficiencies at the compiler end since we don't expect to write very large or complex programs in the near future but we need the runtime to be stable so we can be sure of the port. Or should we wait? Any other comments? I'm hoping that it is stable enough since we want to get quite a bit of work done over the (Southern Hemisphere) summer. Cheers, Tony Sloane Dept of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney