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<H1>Haskell Hierarchical Libraries</H1>
- <P>The libraries are divided into several <EM>packages</EM>:</P>
+ <P>The libraries are divided into several <EM>packages</EM>.
+ NOTE: there is not always a clean division between packages in the
+ hierarchy, which means a node and its children might be in
+ different packages. If you're looking for a specific module, try
+ all the packages below.</P>
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<DT>
<DT>
<A HREF="readline/index.html"><TT>readline</TT></a>
</DT><DD>
- a library for interactively reading input from the console
+ a library for interactively reading input from the console.
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<DT>
<A HREF="unix/index.html"><TT>unix</TT></a>
<H2>Implementation-specific notes</H2>
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- <DT>GHC/GHCi</DT>
+ <DT><A HREF="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">GHC/GHCi</A></DT>
<DD>
Most of the time, all the packages are available without the
need to use any additional command-line options. The only
for more details.
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- <DT>Hugs</DT>
+ <DT><A HREF="http://www.haskell.org/hugs/">Hugs 98</A></DT>
<DD>
- Hugs currently provides modules from the <tt>base</tt>,
- <tt>haskell98</tt>, <tt>network</tt> and <tt>haskell-src</tt> packages.
+ Hugs provides almost all of the modules in the <tt>base</tt> package,
+ all the modules in the
+ <tt>haskell98</tt>, <tt>network</tt> and <tt>haskell-src</tt> packages,
+ and some of those in the <tt>unix</tt> package.
These modules are always available, as a single hierarchy;
Hugs does not use the package subdivision.
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+ <DT><A HREF="http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/">Nhc98</A></DT>
+ <DD>
+ To use modules from a package <i>P</i> with Nhc98,
+ add the compile-time option <tt>-package</tt> <i>P</i>.
+ Nhc98 currently provides many of the modules in the
+ <tt>base</tt> package (see the
+ <a href="http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/libraries.html">Nhc98 libraries page</a>
+ for a list).
+ </DD>
+
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