[Haskell-cafe] Re: apparent minor bug in "Getting started" tutorial at "Haskell Hacking: a journal of Haskell programming"

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 27, at 3:28, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:22:56 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell
> <DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, what I really meant was not to update the reference to "a.out"
> to be changed to "main.exe", but to change the following line:
>
>>> This produces a new executable, ./a.out (a.out.exe on windows),  
>>> which you can run like any other program on your system:
>
> to read as follows:
>
>>> This produces a new executable, ./a.out (main.exe on windows),  
>>> which you can run like any other program on your system:
>
> There was no "a.out.exe" on Windows, but only a "main.exe".

Both the Unix and Windows examples need to be changed, actually; IIRC  
that behavior changed with 6.8.

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