[cvs-nhc98] Legacy question

[Sven Panne]

Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> I think that we ought to be able to assume Haskell'98 by now, but
> unfortunately that excludes hbc and Helium, leaving only ghc, Hugs,
> and nhc98 itself. [...]

Hmmm, haskell.org claims that hbc 0.9999.5 implements Haskell 98, perhaps
I should try to install it, supporting it would be nice then. Helium OTOH
implements only a subset of Haskell (no type classes, no records, simpler
module system, etc.), so it's not really suitable for bootstrapping at all.

Cheers,
    S.