[Haskell-cafe] Help using QuickCheck

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Wed Oct 26 09:05:28 EDT 2005


I'm afraid this fix didn't make it into the 6.4 branch, but the double
error (which is bad) is certainly fixed in the HEAD

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org
[mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Andrew Pimlott
| Sent: 21 October 2005 20:45
| To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help using QuickCheck
| 
| On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:09:41PM +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
| > Many thanks! I wish I had remembered that I had this kind of problem
| > before: ghc reports two errors, of which the /second/ one is the
'real'
| > problem and the first one is just a by-product.
| 
| The case in your original message is particularly annoying, but at
least
| it only affects ghci.  I thought it had been fixed[1], but it is still
| present in 6.4.1, so perhaps it's waiting for 6.5?
| 
| > This practically never
| > happens with C compilers which I (must, sadly) use every day and
thus I
| > always tend to disregard all error messages but the first.
| 
| I generally find that most of GHC's errors are real, ie they don't
| change much when I fix earlier errors.  (It seems to report only one
| error per function to achieve that?)  It's fun to work through the
dozen
| reported mistakes, then compile again to see how many I actually
fixed.
| :-)
| 
| Andrew
| 
| [1]
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1156554&group_i
d=8032&atid=108032
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