RE: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.1

Simon Peyton-Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cvs.ghc
Message-ID <59543203684B2244980D7E4057D5FBC1379C8005@DB3EX14MBXC310.europe.corp.microsoft.com>
Yes, it should be 'z', as you say. Paolo, could you fix this typo please?

Thanks

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
|  Behalf Of Bas van Dijk
|  Sent: 07 September 2012 10:01
|  To: [email protected]; [email protected]
|  Subject: Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.1
|  
|  On 6 September 2012 18:05, Ian Lynagh <[email protected]> wrote:
|  > The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1.
|  
|  Great!
|  
|  >   * It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the
|  >     -fdefer-type-errors flag.
|  
|  In section 7.13.1 it says:
|  
|  ...given the following code:
|  
|  x :: Int
|  x = 0
|  
|  y :: Char
|  y = x
|  
|  z :: Int
|  z = y
|  
|  evaluating x will result in a runtime type error.
|  
|  Shouldn't this be:
|  
|  evaluating z will result in a runtime type error.
|  
|  Cheers,
|  
|  Bas
|  
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