[clean-list] Re: Any scheduled release data for Clean 2.3?

[rinus plasmeijer]

Hi Bejamin,

Very good question!

John van Groningen is working hard on the new version of the compiler.
The idea is that this new system will accept Haskell '98 source code and 
that one can mix Haskell with Clean modules as well.
This is quite a big change in the (front end of) the compiler.
To be able to mix modules has lot's of consequences: In Haskell one can use 
Clean stuf (like uniqueness typing) and in Clean one can use Haskell stuf 
(eg Haskell records which are different from Clean records). Since one has 
to be able to call one from another, there have to be denotations for each 
feature in each language as well.
Also one has to be able to mix libraries (Clean's StdEnv and Haskell's 
prelude).
Finally the IDE has to be adjusted to deal with the new situation.
Haskell's lack of a good module structure does not make life easy...

And John likes to make things reliable, but also fast...
We hope to achieve a compiler which compiles fast and produces excellent 
code, also for the new features..
This takes time.

Before the end of the year we hope to have a beta-version which we can use 
here internally.

Before we can release it externally we need to add documentation.
The list of added features will be long....

We have indeed made some bug fixes, but there are not that many.
So, we will not release a new compiler just for that.

greetings,

Rinus






"Benjamin L. Russell" <DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:jn92h4pna8uctrd2uoqk0pmdrn9b6tmpnv at 4ax.com...
> Actually, come to think of it, the data, in addition to the date,
> might also be useful; specifically, the following:
>
> * bug fixes (if any)
> * changes/added features
> * changes in the documentation
> * a new weekly "Clean Report" on what's happening in the Clean
> community
>
> So, in light of the above which just came to mind, and just to be
> pedantic, let me reinstate my original subject:
>
> "Any scheduled release data for Clean 2.3?"
>
> and include the predicted date as chronological data.  There:  It
> wasn't a typo after all. ;-)
>
> -- Benjamin L. Russell
>
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:39:13 +0900, "Benjamin L. Russell"
> <DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Sorry; the subject should have been as follows:
>>
>>"Any scheduled release date for Clean 2.3?"
>>
>>(I.e., replace "data" with "date" in the original subject.)
>>
>>Sorry for the typo.
>>
>>-- Benjamin L. Russell
>>
>>On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:36:09 +0900, "Benjamin L. Russell"
>><DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Since there hasn't been much activity here lately, I just wanted to
>>>check if there was any tentative release date for Clean 2.3, and if
>>>so, what changes, if any, might be scheduled.
>>>
>>>-- Benjamin L. Russell
>
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