The significant changes to the various parts of the compiler are listed in the following sections. There have also been numerous bug fixes and performance improvements over the 7.0 branch. The 7.2 branch is intended to be more of a "technology preview" than normal GHC stable branches.
DPH support (???) has been significantly improved.
A new feature Safe Haskell (Section 7.23, “Safe Haskell”) has been implemented.
It is now possible to write compiler plugins (Section 9.3, “Compiler Plugins”).
It is now possible to give classes equality superclasses,
i.e. you can write something like
class (F a ~ b) => C a b where { ... }.
See Section 7.9, “Equality constraints” for more details.
The TypeSynonymInstances extension now
correctly requires that instances are valid once the type
synonym is expanded. For example, in order to have
instance SomeClass String where
...
you need both TypeSynonymInstances and
FlexibleInstances enabled, as the latter
is necessary for
instance SomeClass [Char] where
...
The DatatypeContexts extension (which will
not be in the next Haskell language standard) is now off by
default, and deprecated. It is still enabled by the
Haskell98 and
Haskell2010 languages.
See Section 7.4.2, “Data type contexts” for more details.
There is a new extension
NondecreasingIndentation, which controls
an extension to the layout rule that was previously always
enabled. It is now on by default, and (incorrectly, but for
backwards compatibility) on in Haskell98,
but off in Haskell2010.
The new RelaxedLayout extension now
controls a small extension to the layout rule that GHC has
supported unconditionally for some time. It allows explicit
braces to be less indented than implicit braces, without
closing the implicit braces, e.g.:
f x = case x of
False -> do
{ return x; }
parses as
f x = case x of
{False -> do
{ return x; }}
There is a new family of language extensions, collectively known as "Safe Haskell". This includes notions of "safe modules", "trusted modules" and "trusted packages". See Section 7.23, “Safe Haskell” for more details.
The new SafeImports extension extends the
import declaration syntax to take an optional
safe keyword after the
import keyword, e.g. with
import safe Network.Socket
compilation will only succeed if
Network.Socket is a "trusted" module.
See Section 7.3.20, “Safe imports” for more details.
The new Trustworthy extension means that
users of the package are able to declare that this module is
to be trusted, even though GHC can't infer that it is safe.
It implies the SafeImports extension.
See Section 7.23.4, “Trust and Safe Haskell Modes” for more details.
The new Safe extension means GHC will
check that a module's code is safe, and that all its imports
are trusted. It implies the SafeImports
extension, although all imports are required to be trusted
anyway.
See Section 7.23.2, “Safe Language” for more details.
The new extension MonadComprehensions
allows comprehension syntax to be usde with any Monad, not
just lists. e.g.
[ x + y | x <- Just 1, y <- Just 2 ]
evaluates to Just 3.
See Section 7.3.11, “Monad comprehensions” for more details.
The new DefaultSignatures extension
allows you to define a default implementation for
a class method that isn't as general as the method's type.
For example,
class DefaultValue a where
defaultValue :: a
default defaultValue :: Num a => a
defaultValue = 3
instance DefaultValue Int
instance DefaultValue Float
instance DefaultValue Char where
defaultValue = 'x'
See Section 7.6.1.4, “Default method signatures” for more details.
The new DeriveGeneric extension allows
instances of the new GHC.Generics.Generic
class to be derived. Together with the
DefaultSignatures extension this allows
generic programming.
See Section 7.20, “Generic programming” for more details.
The Generics extension has now been
removed. Use the new DefaultSignatures and
DeriveGeneric extensions instead.
The {| curly-pipe bracket |} syntax is thus
no longer recognised.
The -XGenerics flag will give a warning,
but the -fgenerics flag is no longer
accepted.
When the new InterruptibleFFI extension is
enabled, it is now possible to annotate FFI imports as
interruptible, e.g.
foreign import ccall interruptible
"sleep" :: CUint -> IO CUint
in which case for most foreign calls it is possible to
interrupt the foreign call by using throwTo
to throw an exception to the thread making the call.
See Section 8.1.4, “Interruptible foreign calls” for more details.
The threadsafe FFI annotation is no longer
supported. Use safe instead.
The OverlappingInstances extension used to
allow overlapping instances only when all but the
most specific instance were compiled with
OverlappingInstances.
Now overlap is allowed if either all but
the most specific instance were compiled with
OverlappingInstances,
or if the most specific instance was
compiled with OverlappingInstances.
There is a new extension GADTSyntax,
off by default, which permits generalised algebraic data type
syntax for declaring traditional Haskell datatypes. It is
enabled by the GADTs extension.
See Section 7.4.6, “Declaring data types with explicit constructor signatures” for more details.
The NewQualifiedOperators extension, which was
deprecated, has now been removed.
There are new pragmas VECTORISE,
VECTORISE_SCALAR and
NOVECTORISE for controlling the behaviour
of the vectoriser.
Characters in the unicode OtherNumber
category are now treated as being 'digit's, rather than 'other
graphical' characters.
The new -fwarn-identities flag warns about
uses of toInteger,
toRational, fromIntegral
and realToFrac which are the identity.
The new -fwarn-incomplete-uni-patterns
flag warns about pattern matches in a lambda expression or
pattern binding which could fail, e.g.
h = \[] -> 2 Just k = f y
The new -fwarn-missing-local-sigs flag
warns about polymorphic local bindings without type
signatures. The warning includes the inferred type.
The new -fwarn-missing-import-lists flag
warns if you use an unqualified import declaration that does
not explicitly list the entities brought into scope. For
example,
import X (f) import Y import qualified Z
will warn about the import of Y, but not
X or Z. The rationale is
that if module Y is later changed to
export something called f, then any
references to f will become ambiguous.
The previously-undocumented flag
-ddump-to-file causes the output from the
other -ddump-* flags to be put in
appropriately-named files, rather than printed on stdout.
This now also includes the -ddump-simpl
flag, whose output is put in
file_base_name.dump-simpl.
The new -dppr-noprags flag omits the
pragma info in dumps.
The new -ddump-rule-rewrites flag
dumps detailed information about all rules that fired
in this module.
The new -ddump-vect flag dumps the output
of the vectoriser.
The new -ddump-vt-trace flag makes the
vectoriser be very chatty about what it is up to.
The new -ddump-core-stats flag prints
a one-line summary of the size of the Core program at the
end of the optimisation pipeline.
The new -dppr-case-as-let flag prints
single-alternative case expressions as though they were
strict let expressions. This is helpful when your code
does a lot of unboxing.
The new -dsuppress-all flag suppresses
everything that can be suppressed, except for unique ids
(as this often makes the printout ambiguous). If you just
want to see the overall structure of the code, then start
here.
The new -dsuppress-idinfo flag
suppresses extended information about identifiers where
they are bound. This includes strictness information and
inliner templates. Using this flag can cut the size of
the core dump in half, due to the lack of inliner templates.
The new -dsuppress-type-signatures flag
suppresses the printing of type signatures.
The new -dsuppress-type-applications flag
suppresses the printing of type applications.
The new -dppr-colsNNN flag sets the width
of debugging output. Use this if your code is wrapping too
much. For example, -dppr-cols200.
The -k RTS flag, which sets the initial
thread stack size (default 1k), has been renamed
-ki. The old name still works, but may
be removed in a future version of GHC.
There are also new flags -kc, which
sets the stack chunk size (default 32k), and
-kb, which sets the stack chunk buffer
size (default 1k).
Profiling reports now use constant width columns, so large values don't cause the layout to go wrong.
The -L RTS flag, which sets the width of
the labels in heap profile graphs, can now also be used when
retainer profiling.
The -qw RTS flag is now deprecated. It does
nothing, and will be removed in a future version of GHC.
We now keep copies of the argument lists we are passed, so
it is safe for callers of hs_init() to
free the pointers they pass.
The archive loader now supports Darwin "fat archives".
Linker scripts using INPUT are now supported.
The RtsFlags.h header file has finally been
removed; use Rts.h instead.
There are some new threadscope event types:
EVENT_CAPSET_CREATE | Create capability set |
EVENT_CAPSET_DELETE | Delete capability set |
EVENT_CAPSET_ASSIGN_CAP | Add capability to capability set |
EVENT_CAPSET_REMOVE_CAP | Remove capability from capability set |
EVENT_RTS_IDENTIFIER | RTS name and version |
EVENT_PROGRAM_ARGS | Program arguments |
EVENT_PROGRAM_ENV | Program environment variables |
EVENT_OSPROCESS_PID | Process ID |
EVENT_OSPROCESS_PPID | Parent process ID |
The linker now supports kfreebsdgnu.
When using Haskell code as a library, and calling it from
another language, it is no longer necessary to call the
hs_add_root function.
The "evil mangler" has been removed, and
registerised compilation via C is no longer supported.
This means that the
-fvia-c,
-fvia-C,
-keep-raw-s-file,
-keep-raw-s-files,
-pgmm,
-optm,
-monly-2-regs,
-monly-3-regs and
-monly-4-regs
flags are now deprecated, and
have no effect.
The -fasm-mangling and
-fno-asm-mangling flags have been removed.
Unregisterised compilation, for architectures for which there is no native code generator, is still possible, and still compiles via C.
Compiling Objective-C (.m) files is now
supported, assuming your gcc is capable
of compiling them.
The new "Safe Haskell" extensions introduce three
new GHC flags: -trust P exposes package
P if it was hidden and considers it a
trusted package;
-distrust P exposes package
P if it was hidden and considers it an
untrusted package;
-distrust-all-packages considers all
packages distrusted unless they are explicitly set to be
trusted by subsequent command-line options.
Significant progress has been made on the new code generator,
but it is not yet ready for prime-time. If you want to try
it out, use the -fnew-codegen flag.
The Alpha native code generator had bitrotted, so has now been removed.
Running ghc -v ... will no longer pass
-v to gcc. You now need
to use ghc -v4 ... (or higher) instead.
The -Odph flag is now equivalent to
-O2 -fsimplifier-phases=3 -fsimplifier-iterations=20.
There is a new -fdph-none flag can be used
to specify that no DPH backend should be used. It is now the
default, i.e. -fdph-par or
-fdph-seq need to be explicitly specified
if required.
The -n flag has been removed.
The -fmethod-sharing flag has been removed.
GHCi now has a multiline-input mode, enabled with
:set +m. For example,
Prelude> :set +m Prelude> let x = 3 Prelude| y = 4 Prelude| in x + y 7 Prelude>
The new :script command takes a filename
as an argument, and executes each line in that file. It
supports multiline statements if the +m
mode is set.
The new :issafe command tells you whether
a module is considered to be trusted or not.
When resolving abbreviated GHCi commands, we now prefer
built-in commands to user defined commands. This makes things
more consistent, e.g. :i will always mean
:info, unless :i itself
is defined by the user.
The :m +M and import M
GHCi commands now do exactly the same thing.
With a new flag -ghci-script you can specify
additional files to be read on startup, in the same way that
.ghci is.
There are new ghc-pkg commands trust
and distrust, used for setting the
trustworthiness of packages for Safe Haskell.
See Section 4.9.6, “Package management (the ghc-pkg command)” for more details.
The new flags
-expand-env-vars,
-expand-pkgroot and
-no-expand-pkgroot
control whether the ${pkgroot},
${pkgrooturl} and
${topdir} variables are expanded
when printing information.
The --auto-ghci-libs flag is deprecated,
and will be removed in a future version.
Cross-compilation is now supported by hsc2hs, for most features.
The new --cross-compile
(or -x) flag enables cross-compilation,
while --cross-safe checks that only
features for which cross-compilation works are used.
See Section 11.2.4, “Cross-compilation” for more details.
The new --keep-files
(or -k) flag makes hsc2hs keep the
intermediate files that it generates.
GHC now has support for "plugins". This feature allows you to write a Core-to-Core pass and have it dynamically linked into an otherwise-unmodified GHC, and run at a place you specify in the Core optimisation pipeline.
The new
-fplugin=
flag specifies that modulemodule is
to be used as a plugin, and
-fplugin-opt=
allows arguments to be passed to the plugin.
module:args
See Section 9.3, “Compiler Plugins” for more details.
Coercions now have their own datatype rather than being represented as types. They are now value-level things, rather than type-level things, although the value is zero bits wide (like the State token).
The StmtLR datatype has a new constructor
LastStmt, which holds the final
(expression) statement of all comprehensions and
do-blocks.
The printExceptionAndWarnings function
has been deprecated, in favour of the new
printException function.
The SrcSpan and SrcLoc
types have been refactored so that the new
RealSrcSpan and
RealSrcLoc types are used when we have a
real location, rather than an "unhelpful" location.
The type of defaultErrorHandler has
changed. In particular, this means that you will normally
want to pass it defaultLogAction instead
of defaultDynFlags.
Calling withFlattenedDynflags is no longer
necessary, and the function has been removed.
Several of the old native code generator modules gained an
Old prefix, when their names clashed with
modules in the new native code generator.
GHC development now uses git repositories, rather than darcs repositories. Instructions for getting source trees are on the GHC wiki.
The sync-all script, rather than the
darcs-all script, is now used for dealing
with repositories.
GHC >= 6.12 is now required to build GHC.
Building with gcc 4.6 now works.
On Windows, we now bundle gcc 4.5.2-1 (was 4.5.0-1).
GHC now works with LLVM 3.0.
The location of gcc, and various other settings, is now in a
settings file. The
extra-gcc-opts file is no longer used.
It is no longer necessary to set
GhcWithLlvmCodeGen = YES in order to get
llvm support: llvm support is now always enabled.
The new code generator is not yet ready for prime-time, but if you want to experiment with it you can make it the default by setting
GhcStage1DefaultNewCodegen=YES GhcStage2DefaultNewCodegen=YES GhcStage3DefaultNewCodegen=YES
in your mk/build.mk.
Platforms with a vendor of softfloat, such
as armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi, are
now supported.
Unicode support has generally been improved across the core libraries. This has a few consequences:
Code that has been using the *CString
functions may need to be corrected to use the
*CAString functions.
Users may now observe strings — particularly those from the commandline — containing private-use characters, i.e. those in the range 0xEF00 to 0xEFFF inclusive.
Programs may now get exceptions when writing strings in the wrong encoding to (for example) stdout.
Version number 4.4.0.0 (was 4.3.1.0)
The Typeable module has been
overhauled. The mkTyCon
function has been deprecated; the preferable fix
is to derive Typeable instead
(see Section 7.5.3, “Deriving clause for extra classes (Typeable, Data, etc)”),
although there is also a replacement
for mkTyCon in the form of a
new function
mkTyCon3, which takes separate
strings for the package, module and name of the
type constructor.
Also, typeRepKey is deprecated,
and both TypeRep
and TyCon now
have Ord instances which means
they can be used as Map keys.
The result of gcd 0 0 is now
0, rather than throwing an exception.
The result of minBound `rem` -1
and minBound `div` -1 is now 0,
rather than throwing an overflow exception.
Control.Concurrent now exports
new functions
forkIOWithUnmask,
forkOn,
forkOnWithUnmask,
getNumCapabilities and
threadCapability.
The forkIOUnmasked function has
been deprecated in favour of
forkIOWithUnmask.
The same changes have been made to
GHC.Conc and
GHC.Conc.Sync.
Control.Exception exports a new
function allowInterrupt which, when
invoked inside mask, allows a
blocked asynchronous exception to be raised, if one
exists.
System.IO.Unsafe now exports
the new function
unsafeDupablePerformIO.
This is a more efficient version of
unsafePerformIO, but may run the
IO action multiple times (currently, in GHC, only
when multiple threads try to evaluate it
simultaneously).
System.IO.Error now exports
new functions catchIOError and
tryIOError.
The try and catch
functions are now deprecated.
GHC.IO.Encoding now exports three
new TextEncodings:
The fileSystemEncoding encoding
is the Unicode encoding of the current locale, but
allows arbitrary undecodable bytes to be
round-tripped through it. It is used to decode and
encode command line arguments and environment
variables on non-Windows platforms.
The foreignEncoding encoding
is the Unicode encoding of the current locale, but
undecodable bytes are replaced with their closest
visual match. It's used for the
CString marshalling functions in
Foreign.C.String.
In the char8 encoding Unicode
code points are translated to bytes by taking the
code point modulo 256. When decoding, bytes are
translated directly into the equivalent code point.
This encoding is also exported by
System.IO.
The functions to make
TextEncodings now have
mk* variants which take a
CodingFailureMode argument.
The new functions, together with what they
generalise, are:
GHC.IO.Encoding.Latin1 | latin1 | mkLatin1 |
GHC.IO.Encoding.Latin1 | latin1_checked | mkLatin1_checked |
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF8 | utf8 | mkUTF8 |
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF8 | utf8_bom | mkUTF8_bom |
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF16 | utf16 | mkUTF16 |
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF16 | utf16be | mkUTF16be |
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF16 | utf16le | mkUTF16le |
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF32 | utf32 | mkUTF32 |
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF32 | utf32be | mkUTF32be |
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF32 | utf32le | mkUTF32le |
Similarly, there are new
mkCodePageEncoding and
mkLocaleEncoding
generalisations of
codePageEncoding and
localeEncoding in
GHC.IO.Encoding.CodePage.
GHC.IO.Encoding.Iconv has
been similarly altered, and now only exports
iconvEncoding,
mkIconvEncoding,
localeEncoding and
mkLocaleEncoding.
GHC.IO.Encoding.Types and
GHC.IO.Encoding now export a new
type CodingProgress which
describes the state of a text encoder. The
BufferCodec,
DecodeBuffer and
EncodeBuffer types have also
changed.
GHC.IO now exports bracket.
GHC.IO.blocked is now deprecated
in favour of
Control.Exception.getMaskingState.
GHC.Show now exports two new
helpers, showLitString (analogous
to showLitChar) and
showMultiLineString (which breaks
a string containing newlines characters up into
multiple strings).
The type of GHC.IO.FD.openFile
has changed to include a flag for whether to
open the file in non-blocking mode.
GHC.IO.Handle.FD now exports a
variant openFileBlocking of
openFile, which opens the file
in blocking mode.
The type of
Foreign.Marshal.Utils.maybeNew
has been generalised to
(a -> IO (Ptr b)) -> (Maybe a -> IO (Ptr b))
Foreign.C.Types now exports new
types CUSeconds and
CSUSeconds, corresponding to the
C types useconds_t and
suseconds_t respectively.
System.Posix.Internals new exports
new functions peekFilePath
and, on non-Windows platforms,
peekFilePathLen and
c_safe_open.
Data.List.inits,
Data.List.tails,
Data.List.intersperse and
Data.List.intersectBy
are now lazier.
Data.Char no longer exports
String.
Data.String now re-exports
String,
lines,
unlines,
words and
unwords.
There is now a Read instance for
Data.Fixed.Fixed a.
There are now Eq instances for
Control.Concurrent.Chan.Chan,
Control.Concurrent.QSem.QSem and
Control.Concurrent.QSemN.QSemN.
There are now Applicative
instances for
Control.Monad.ST.ST and
Control.Monad.ST.Lazy.ST.
There is now a
Typeable instance for
Control.Concurrent.SampleVar.SampleVar.
Most of GHC.PArr has been moved
into the dph package. Only the
[::] datatype remains.
There is a new module
Control.Monad.Group
for monadic grouping (used for monad comprehensions).
There is a new module
Control.Monad.Zip
for monadic zipping (used for monad comprehensions).
There is a new internal module
GHC.Foreign which provides
versions of some C string functions generalised
to be usable with any encoding.
There is a new internal module
GHC.IO.Encoding.Failure which
provides functionality for specifying how text
encoding and decoding fails.
On Windows, there is a new internal module
GHC.Windows which duplicates
part of System.Win32.Types.
Some functions have been moved from
GHC.Base down into
GHC.Classes.
There are now new internal modules
GHC.Float.ConversionUtils and
GHC.Float.RealFracMethods.
The safe parts of the Foreign
module are now in a new module
Foreign.Safe.
Foreign now reexports
all the safe code it used to, as well as
deprecated copies of the unsafe functions.
The Foreign.ForeignPtr module
has been split into
Foreign.ForeignPtr.Safe and
Foreign.ForeignPtr.Unsafe.
Foreign.ForeignPtr now
reexports
Foreign.ForeignPtr.Safe and
a deprecated copy of the unsafe function
(unsafeForeignPtrToPtr).
The Foreign.Marshal module
has been split into
Foreign.Marshal.Safe and
Foreign.Marshal.Unsafe.
Foreign.Marshal now
reexports
Foreign.Marshal.Safe and
a deprecated copy of the unsafe function
(unsafeLocalState).
The Control.Monad.ST module
has been split into
Control.Monad.ST.Safe and
Control.Monad.ST.Unsafe.
Control.Monad.ST now
reexports
Control.Monad.ST.Safe and
deprecated copies of the unsafe functions
(unsafeInterleaveST,
unsafeIOToST and
unsafeSTToIO).
The Control.Monad.ST.Lazy module
has been split into
Control.Monad.ST.Lazy.Safe and
Control.Monad.ST.Lazy.Unsafe.
Control.Monad.ST.Lazy now
reexports
Control.Monad.ST.Lazy.Safe and
deprecated copies of the unsafe functions
(unsafeInterleaveST
and unsafeIOToST).
The System.Event module has been
renamed GHC.Event.
Following the removal of
DatatypeContexts from the
language, the definitions of
Control.Arrow.ArrowMonad,
Array and
Complex and
Ratio have had their
datatype contexts removed.
Many modules have been marked
Trustworthy.
System.Posix.Internals now
exports a function puts, for
debugging within the base package.
The Unicode data is now based on version 6.0.0 (was 5.1.0) of the Unicode spec.
Version number 0.9.2.0 (was 0.9.1.10)
There is now an
hPutNonBlocking
function in
Data.ByteString,
Data.ByteString.Char8,
Data.ByteString.Lazy and
Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8.
There are now hPutStrLn
and putStrLn functions in
Data.ByteString.Char8 and
Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8.
The functions in
Data.ByteString and
Data.ByteString.Lazy
are now deprecated.
Version number 1.12.0.0 (was 1.10.2.0) TODO: Currently we have 1.11.0. The branch needs to be created.
For details of changes to Cabal, please see the Cabal changelog.
Version number 0.4.1.0 (was 0.4.0.0) TODO: Bump version
Data.Map now exports new
functions foldrWithKey' and
foldlWithKey', which are strict
variants of foldrWithKey and
foldlWithKey respectively.
Data.IntMap now exports new
functions insertWith' and
insertWithKey', which are strict
variants of insertWith and
insertWithKey respectively.
Version number 1.2.0.1 (was 1.2.0.0)
The handling of "." as a component in a
FilePath is now more consistent.
See #3975 for more information.
Version number 2.0.0.0 (was 1.1.0.1)
It is no longer possible to use the haskell98
package with the base package, as it now includes the
Prelude and
Numeric modules. The haskell98
package is therefore now hidden by default.
Version number 1.1.0.0 (was 1.0.0.0)
The splitAt function now
has the correct strictness, as defined by the
report.
This is a new package, version 3.8.7.2. TODO: Bump version number. 3.8.7.1 is on hackage.
Version number 0.5.1.0 (was 0.5.0.6)
A new function catchIO is now
exported by Trace.Hpc.Util.
Version number 0.3.0.0 (was 0.2.0.2)
Now exposes two new modules,
GHC.Integer.Logarithms and
GHC.Integer.Logarithms.Internals.
The toInt# function has been
renamed to integerToInt.
Version number 1.1.0.0 (was 1.0.1.2)
There is a new function
sizedText,
which allows you to specify the width that a string
should be considered to have.
The Doc type is now an instance
of IsString and
Monoid.
Version number 1.1.0.0 (was 1.0.1.4)
There is a new function
showCommandForUser in
System.Process which,
given a program and its arguments,
returns a string suitable for pasting
into sh (on POSIX OSs) or cmd.exe (on Windows).
There is a new function
interruptProcessGroupOf in
System.Process which
sends an interrupt signal to the process group of
the given process. On Unix systems, it sends the
group the SIGINT signal.
On Windows systems, it generates a
CTRL_BREAK_EVENT and will only
work for processes created using
createProcess with the
create_group flag set.
The CreateProcess
constructor, exported by
System.Process.Internals and
System.Process, has a new
Bool field
create_group
which specifies whether a process group should be created.
The type of withCEnvironment
on Windows is now more consistent with other
platforms, as the action now takes a
Ptr CWString rather than
Ptr ().
Version number 2.6.0.0 (was 2.5.0.0)
In Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax
the Exp, Pat
and Type datatypes have new
constructors UnboxedTupE,
UnboxedTupP and
UnboxedTupleT respectively.
There are also new helper functions
unboxedTupleTypeName and
unboxedTupleDataName.
There are corresponding helper functions
unboxedTupE,
unboxedTupP and
unboxedTupleT in
Language.Haskell.TH.Lib.
In Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax
the Safety type has a new
constructor Interruptible.
There is a corresponding new value
interruptible :: Safety
in Language.Haskell.TH.Lib.
However, the Threadsafe
constructor and threadsafe
helper have been removed, following the removal
of the feature from GHC.
In Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax,
the classInstances function now
has type
Name -> [Type] -> Q [ClassInstance],
and the qClassInstances instance
of the Quasi class now has type
Name -> [Type] -> m [ClassInstance].
There are now helper functions
pprString and
hashParens exported from
Language.Haskell.TH.Ppr.
The helper functions
combine,
rename,
genpat,
alpha and
simpleMatch
have been removed from
Language.Haskell.TH.Lib.
Version number 1.2.0.5 (was 1.2.0.3)
The %-, %_
and %0 specifiers can now be
used. For example,
> parseTime defaultTimeLocale "%-m/%e/%Y" "3/9/2011" :: Maybe Day Just 2011-03-09
The default year is now correctly in the range 1969-2068, rather than 1900-1999.
Some cases in which an exception was thrown now
correctly return Nothing.
Version number 2.5.0.0 (was 2.4.2.0)
In System.Posix.Process
the createProcessGroup
and setProcessGroupID
functions have been deprecated.
There are new functions, which subsume their
functionality, called
createProcessGroupFor,
getProcessGroupIDOf and
setProcessGroupIDOf.
In System.Posix.Error, there is a
new variant of
throwErrnoPathIfMinus1Retry
called
throwErrnoPathIfMinus1Retry_,
which returns IO ().