[jhc] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.7.7 is out.

[John Meacham]

No, I didn't get a chance to look at that. It appears to still be a
problem. I'll see if it something straightforward to fix.

    John

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Korcan Hussein <korcan_h at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome :) you mentioned transformers package, did you have a look at the
> issues I had with using monad transformers with monad stack containing IO? I
> posted it a few weeks ago here:
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/jhc/2011-January/000862.html
>
>> From: john at repetae.net
>> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:47:20 -0800
>> To: haskell at haskell.org; jhc at haskell.org
>> Subject: [jhc] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.7.7 is out.
>>
>> Announcing jhc 0.7.7! This release fixes a large number of bugs that
>> cropped up
>> when compiling haskell out in the wild as well as adds some more features.
>> A
>> major one being the garbage collector is enabled by default.
>>
>>  http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/
>>
>> Changes: (including some changes from the unannounced 0.7.6 release)
>>
>> * The Garbage Collector is now enabled by default.
>> * new standard libraries
>>     * transformers
>>     * parsec
>>     * QuickCheck
>> * report proper errors with line numbers for various issues with compiled
>> code.
>> * New option '-C' that compiles to C code and stops, useful for targeting
>> other
>>   platforms or building shared libraries.
>> * Nintendo Wii added as target (thanks to Korcan Hussein)
>> * Fix major performance bug that kept WRAPPERs from being inlined in
>> certain places.
>> * Typechecking speed greatly increased.
>> * monomorphism-restriction flag is now respected
>> * empty class contexts now work
>> * unicode in haskell source supported now
>> * Type Defaulting now works properly
>> * RULES parse like ghc now for compatibility
>> * 'do' 'where' on same indent now parses
>> * Build system fixes and cleanups
>> * irrefutable lambda pattern bindings desugar properly now.
>> * GHC parsing regression tests have been ported to jhc, helped find
>> and fix many bugs.
>> * Certain optimizations would discard RULES, these have been fixed.
>> * Removed quadratic behavior in optimizer, speeds things up noticibly.
>> * Garbage collector improvements, caches are pre-initialized.
>> * Fix shiftL/R implementations for built in types.
>> * All Num, Real, and Integral magic removed from compiler. This is a very
>>   good thing.
>> * improved help messages
>>
>>        John
>>
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