[project @ 1997-06-06 22:19:27 by sof]

last minute 2.04 fixes

ghc/docs/users_guide/2-03-notes.lit

@@ -4,8 +4,13 @@ ways:
 \begin{itemize}
 \item
     A slew of small bugs are fixed.  You can find the complete list
-    at @http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/ghc-bugs.html@.  One
-    bug remains un-fixes, namely the crash when there's an empty
+    at:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/ghc-bugs.html
+\end{verbatim}
+
+    One bug remains un-fixes, namely the crash when there's an empty 
     comment at the end of file.  It's wierd!
 
 \item

ghc/docs/users_guide/2-04-notes.lit

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ adds the following:
 
 \begin{itemize}
 \item
-Data constructors can now have polymophic fields, and ordinary
-functions can have polymoprhic arguments.  Details on
+Data constructors can now have polymorphic fields, and ordinary
+functions can have polymorphic arguments.  Details on
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 	http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/quantification.html
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ renamer optimisations. You can try the effect with the renamer
 statistics. War stories welcome.
 
 \item
-    The Heroic Efforts of \tr{Andre\' Santos <alms@di.ufpe.br>} have
+    The Heroic Efforts of \tr{Andr\'e Santos <alms@di.ufpe.br>} have
     been included, AIX/RS6000 is now a supported \tr{ghc}
     platform! Bug reports concerning this port to (as always)
     \tr{glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk}.

ghc/docs/users_guide/backwards.lit

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 
 This part of the guide is to help people upgrading from a
 previous version of GHC.  Right now, it is mostly to help people
-switching from GHC~0.26 (a Haskell~1.2 compiler, mostly) to GHC~2.01
-(a Haskell~1.3 compiler).
+switching from GHC~0.29 (a Haskell~1.2 compiler, mostly) to GHC~2.04
+(a Haskell~1.4 compiler).
 
 %ToDo: index
 
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ If you need to maintain Haskell code that will work for multiple
 versions of GHC, you can use the \tr{-cpp} flag and the
 \tr{__GLASGOW_HASKELL__} pre-processor variable.
 
-For example, in GHC~0.26, \tr{__GLASGOW_HASKELL__} will be 26; for~2.01,
-it will be 201.  Thus, you can write:
+For example, in GHC~0.29, \tr{__GLASGOW_HASKELL__} will be 29; for~2.04,
+it will be 204.  Thus, you can write:
 \begin{verbatim}
 #if __HASKELL1__ <= 2
 main = appendChan stdout "Hello, world!\n" exit done -- 1.2
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ exact equivalent exists in 1.3.
 %*                                                                      *
 %************************************************************************
 
-GHC~0.26 supported an early DRAFT of the Haskell~1.3 monadic I/O
+GHC~0.29 supported an early DRAFT of the Haskell~1.3 monadic I/O
 facilities.  Inevitably, what Really Made It into 1.3 is not quite
 what was in the draft.
 
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ The function \tr{try} didn't make it into 1.3 I/O.  GHC supplies it
 All the system modules named \tr{LibSomething} dropped the \tr{Lib}.
 So: \tr{LibSystem} is now just \tr{System}.
 
-In~0.26, you could mix-n-match @IO@ with @PrimIO@, simply because the
+In~0.29, you could mix-n-match @IO@ with @PrimIO@, simply because the
 implementation happend to allow it.  Not any more.
 
 The \tr{IOError} type is now abstract; you cannot see it's
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ overloaded, you will need to switch to \tr{genericTake},
 %*                                                                      *
 %************************************************************************
 
-GHC~2.01 is fussier than 0.26 about junk in import lists.  This is a
+GHC~2.04 is fussier than 0.29 about junk in import lists.  This is a
 feature.
 
 \tr{Foo..} (in export lists) must be changed to \tr{module Foo}.
@@ -276,4 +276,4 @@ and @fwrite@ are dead.
 
 The \tr{LibPosix} stuff didn't make it into 1.3 I/O, so it has become
 a ``system library'' (\tr{-syslib posix}).  Other than dropping the
-\tr{Lib*} prefix, everything should be the same as in 0.26.
+\tr{Lib*} prefix, everything should be the same as in 0.29.

ghc/docs/users_guide/intro.lit

 %
-% $Header: /srv/cvs/cvs.haskell.org/fptools/ghc/docs/users_guide/Attic/intro.lit,v 1.4 1997/03/24 04:42:47 sof Exp $
+% $Header: /srv/cvs/cvs.haskell.org/fptools/ghc/docs/users_guide/Attic/intro.lit,v 1.5 1997/06/06 22:19:30 sof Exp $
 %
 \section[introduction-GHC]{Introduction to GHC}
 
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ material in \sectionref{compiler-tutorial} may help.
 
 On the World-Wide Web, there are several URLs of likely interest:
 \begin{display}
+Haskell home page -- \tr{http://haskell.org/}
 GHC home page -- \tr{http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/}
 Glasgow FP group page -- \tr{http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/}
-comp.lang.functional FAQ -- \tr{http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html}
-programming language research page --
-   \tr{http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/language-research.html}
+comp.lang.functional FAQ -- 
+   \tr{http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html}
 \end{display}
 We run two mailing lists about Glasgow Haskell.  We encourage you to
 join, as you feel is appropriate.

ghc/docs/users_guide/release.lit

@@ -26,17 +26,21 @@ Email: glasgow-haskell-\{users,bugs\}-request\@dcs.gla.ac.uk}
 % pointers to it.  Mentioning something in the release notes is not
 % the same as documenting it.
 
-\section[release-2-03]{Release notes for version~2.04---6/97}
+\section[release-notes]{Release notes}
+
+\subsection[release-2-04]{Release notes for version~2.04---6/97}
 \input{2-04-notes.lit}
 
-\section[release-2-03]{Release notes for version~2.03---4/97}
+\subsection[release-2-03]{Release notes for version~2.03---4/97}
 \input{2-03-notes.lit}
 
-\section[release-2-02]{Release notes for version~2.02---3/97}
+\subsection[release-2-02]{Release notes for version~2.02---3/97}
+\downsection
 \input{2-02-notes.lit}
+\upsection
 
-\section[release-2-01]{Release notes for version~2.01---7/96}
-\input{2-01-notes.lit}
+%\section[release-2-01]{Release notes for version~2.01---7/96}
+%\input{2-01-notes.lit}
 
 %\section[release-RSN]{What we hope to do Real Soon Now}
 %\downsection
@@ -58,7 +62,7 @@ Email: glasgow-haskell-\{users,bugs\}-request\@dcs.gla.ac.uk}
 %with bug fixes''; i.e., the current state-of-play on the Haskell~1.2
 %compiler development.
 
-\section{Old release notes}
+\subsection[older-release-notes]{Old release notes}
 
 We used to include the release notes back to the dawn of time in this
 document.  Made for a nice long document, but it wasn't that

ghc/docs/users_guide/sooner.lit

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ especially with \tr{-O2}.
 
 At present, \tr{-O2} is nearly indistinguishable from \tr{-O}.
 
-At version 2.01, \tr{-O} is a dodgy proposition, no matter what.
+%At version 2.01, \tr{-O} is a dodgy proposition, no matter what.
 
 %----------------------------------------------------------------
 \item[Compile via C and crank up GCC:] Even with \tr{-O}, GHC tries to

ghc/docs/users_guide/syslib.lit

@@ -2342,9 +2342,12 @@ shortToInt :: Short -> Int        -- convert a Short to Int
 byteToInt :: Byte -> Int          -- convert a Byte to Int
 \end{verbatim}
 
-\item[\tr{Time}:]
+\item[\tr{TimeUtil}:]
 \index{Time module (HBC library)}%
 Manipulate time values (a Double with seconds since 1970).
+[7/97 -- this lib has been more or less superceeded by the standard Time
+ interface]
+
 \begin{verbatim}
 --               year mon  day  hour min  sec  dec-sec  weekday
 data Time = Time Int  Int  Int  Int  Int  Int  Double  Int

ghc/docs/users_guide/user.lit

 \begin{onlystandalone}
 \documentstyle[11pt,literate]{article}
 \begin{document}
-\title{The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System\\ Version~2.02\\ User's Guide}
+\title{The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System\\ Version~2.04\\ User's Guide}
 \author{The GHC Team\\
 Department of Computing Science\\
 University of Glasgow\\