GHC 4.08

July 2000GHC 4.08Release notes for GHC 4.08

Here we have the first introduction of the concept of packages,Documentation about packages in GHC 4.08 and the -package and -package-name flags. The standard libraries are included in a package named std. This package will later be renamed to base in GHC 5.04.

Added support for implicit parameters, enabled by the -fglasgow-exts flag. The -fimplicit-params flag would later be added in GHC 6.2, ultimately replaced by -XImplicitParams in GHC 6.8.1.

Added the DEPRECATED pragma.