Hooray! The Glasgow Haskell Compiler, version 6.6, has been released. Among the many new features in GHC 6.6 are a few that I’m looking forward to using right away:
- SMP support to keep dual-core processors happy.
- Bang
patterns
to strictify function arguments automatically, saving many calls to
seq. - GADTs can now use record syntax.
- GHCi now allows tab completion of in-scope names and modules on platforms that use readline (i.e. not Windows).
Congratulations and a big thank-you to the GHC team!