[Haskell-cafe] ghc: Var/Type length mismatch message - what does it mean?

[Martijn van Steenbergen]

Max Bolingbroke wrote:
> 2009/3/31 John Lask <jvlask at hotmail.com>:
>> we get the following message when we load into ghci (6.8.2)
>>
>> Var/Type length mismatch:
>>   []
>>   [base:GHC.Base.(){(w) tc 40}]
>>
>> is this a bug? if not, what is this message telling us ?
> 
> I can't reproduce it with 6.10.1, so I presume it is a now-fixed 6.8 bug.

I have both 6.8.2 and 6.10.1 running. The former shows the message, the 
latter doesn't.

Martijn.