RE: bug with definition at top-level:

This embarrassing bug in GHC 6.0 has been reported several times now. 
There's a good workaround: just say

        :t GHC.Err.error

as your first command in GHCi.  Then it'll be happy with your subsequent
definition.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
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| Subject: bug with definition at top-level:
| 
| 3:54pm moussor:handalign/ ghci
|    ___         ___ _
|   / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
|  / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.0, for Haskell
98.
| / /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
| \____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.
| 
| Loading package base ... linking ... done.
| Loading package lang ... linking ... done.
| Prelude> let f s = let (p1:_:p2:_:r1:_:f2:_) = map read (words s) in
show
| ((2*p1*r1)/(p1+r1)) ++ " & " ++ show ((2*p2*f2)/(p2+f2))
| ghc-6.0: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.0):
|         getLinkDeps No iface for [<pkg>]GHCziErr
| 
| Please report it as a compiler bug to
glasgow-haskell-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx,
| or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/.
| 
| 
| 
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|  Hal Daume III                                   | hdaume@xxxxxxx
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