Hugs98 Nov 2002 documentation glitch

Alastair Reid alastair@reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:07:56 +0100


> The Nov 2002 implementation of Hugs says it implements a particular
> version of the Haskell FFI draft (probably 0.7 but I'm not in a
> position to check right this moment) and gives a URL in Australia as
> the only reference as to what this FFI version contains.
> Unfortunately, the URL in question now contains only the subsequent
> (probably 0.8) version of the FFI, so Hugs users are left with no
> documentation as to what the current version actually implements.
> The latter would be better included either with Hugs or at least on
> the same site, so that consistency between documentation and
> implementation would be under your control rather than someone
> else's.

I think the changes from 0.7 to 0.8 were fairly minor and mostly going
along with things that Hugs already did so there shouldn't be any
major issues as a result of the version mismatch.

But, your point is well taken and we'll try to arrange something
better on the documentation front.

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Alastair Reid