What's the '0' for in the version number?

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Mon, 6 May 2002 11:44:03 +0100


> Why is it GHC "5.02.2", "5.03" etc.? Wouldn't it be easier=20
> with "5.2.2", "5.3"?

I don't know, probably historical reasons: as far as I can remember,
GHC's version numbers always had two digits after the decimal point.
For historians, here is the announcement of the first release of GHC
(0.06) archived thanks to Google:

=09
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3D16945.9203281558%40dcs.glasgow.ac.=
u
k&output=3Dgplain

Cheers,
	Simon