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[Simon Marlow]

> "Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> writes:
> 
> > > However, only Hugs implements this part of the spec at the moment.
> > 
> > It will be implemented in GHC before the next major 
> release.  I'm not
> > intentionally dragging my heels on this one, just haven't 
> got around to
> > it yet :-)
> 
> And of course the ghc-5.04 branch will keep the existing 
> (non-standard)
> signature, because there are no API changes permitted in 
> bug-fix releases.

That's right - the change will be in 5.06 (or 6.00), not in 5.04.3.

Cheers,
	Simon