[Haskell-cafe] Re: nhc vs ghc

[apfelmus]

brad clawsie wrote:
> can anyone provide a concise list of the major differences between
> nhc98 and ghc? for example, can i build a cabal package with nhc98? i
> get that ghc and nhc98 are not interchangeable, otherwise i am not
> sure

The major difference is that nhc98 is pretty much Haskell98 only, so no 
multi parameter type classes, rank-n-polymorphism or GADTs. It does 
support existential types, though. In particular, the popular monad 
transformer library isn't Haskell98, at least concerning the type classes.


Regards,
apfelmus