[Haskell-beginners] GOTCHA! OpenGL window behaviour is mis-spelled...

Jack Henahan jhenahan at uvm.edu
Thu Jun 30 21:45:31 CEST 2011


Seems like something that _should_ be changed, either way. Contact the developer, I guess. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/User:SvenPanne

On Jun 30, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Sean Charles wrote:

> This caught me out for several frustrating minutes until I finally saw the problem...
> 
> package: Graphics.UI.GLUT.Begin
> 
> data ActionOnWindowClose has three constructors, and I wanted the third one which I glanced at and then spelled it how I knew it *should* be:
> 
> ContinueExecution
> 
> which gave me an error, and finally I realised that as an English word it is in fact spelled incorrectly in the code, like so:
> 
> ContinueExectuoin
> 
> HTML Link:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GLUT/latest/doc/html/Graphics-UI-GLUT-Begin.html#v:actionOnWindowClose
> 
> 
> Is this one of those "accepted things" as in, too difficult to change because it will break stuff or could it be changed ?
> 
> All the best,
> Sean.
> 
> 
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