[Haskell-cafe] database access recommendation

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 27 11:48:56 EDT 2006


Hi

> It fails with Hugs on both platforms on the "runhugs Setup.lhs
> configure" step in the base HSQL library with:
>
> Windows:
>
> ERROR "C:\Program
> Files\WinHugs\libraries\Text\ParserCombinators\ReadP.hs":156 -
>  Syntax error in type expression (unexpected `.')

That looks like it requires haskell extensions (forall in particular),
and Hugs is running without them. Try adding the -98 option to Hugs.
The other option is to start WinHugs, click on Options, and under
Haskell Extensions change it to Hugs/GHC extensions.

Thanks

Neil


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