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NAME

       hugs, runhugs, ffihugs - Hugs 98, functional programming system

SYNOPSIS

       hugs [ options ] [ modules ]
       runhugs [ options ] module [ args ]
       ffihugs [ options ] module [ compiler_argument ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Hugs is an interpreter for Haskell, a standard non-strict functional programming language.
       Hugs implements almost all of the Haskell  98  standard,  except  for  mutually  recursive
       modules.  The name Hugs is a mnemonic for the Haskell User's Gofer System.

       The interpreter is started using the hugs command.  After processing options, it loads the
       standard module Prelude and any other modules listed on the command line.

       Each Haskell module is stored in a separate  file.   When  loading  a  module  name,  Hugs
       replaces  each  `.'  in name with a `/' and looks in each of the directories on its search
       path (see -P under OPTIONS) for the files name.hs and name.lhs.  (The recognized  suffixes
       may  be  changed  using  the -S option, described under OPTIONS.)  It also tries name as a
       literal filename.  Files ending in ".lhs" are treated as literate scripts.

OPTIONS

       Some options are toggled with + or - to turn them on or off, respectively.

   Language conformance
       +98    Accept only Haskell 98 (cannot be changed within Hugs; default: on).  Turning  this
              off  enables  several  special  Hugs extensions, which are described in the Hugs 98
              User Manual.

       +o     Allow overlapping instances (a Hugs extension; default: off)

       +O     Allow unsafe overlapping instances (a Hugs extension; default: off)

       +H     Allow `here documents' (a Hugs extension; default: off)

   Module loading
       +l     Treat files whose names end  in  neither  `.hs'  nor  `.lhs'  as  literate  scripts
              (default: off)

       +.     Print dots to show progress while loading modules (default: off)

       +q     Print nothing to show progress while loading modules (default: on)

       +w     Always show which files are loaded (default: off)

   Expression evaluation
       +s     Print number of reductions/cells after each evaluation (default: off)

       +t     Print type after each evaluation (default: off)

       +T     Apply the Haskell defaulting rules before printing types (default: off)

       +g     Print number of cells recovered after each garbage collection (default: off)

       +Q     Qualify names when printing (default: off)

       +k     Show kind errors in full (default: off)

       +u     Use "show" to display results (default: on)

       +I     Display results of IO programs (default: off)

   Parameters
       Other options (in which - could be replaced by +, the choice making no difference) are:

       -hnum  Set heap size (cannot be changed within Hugs; default: 250K)

       -pstr  Set  prompt string to str (default: `%s> ').  Any %s in the prompt will be replaced
              by the current module name.

       -rstr  Set repeat last expression string to str (default: $$).

       -Pstr  Set search path for source files to str, which should be a colon-separated list  of
              directories.   A  null  entry  in this list will be replaced by the previous search
              path; a null str means the default path.  Any occurrence of {Hugs} in  this  string
              is expanded to the Hugs library directory, namely /usr/lib/hugs.  Similarly, {Home}
              is expanded to your home directory (the value of the  HOME  environment  variable).
              An  entry  of  the  form  `directory/*'  means  all the immediate subdirectories of
              directory.  The default value is

                     .:{Home}/lib/hugs/packages/*:/usr/local/lib/hugs/packages/*:{Hugs}/packages/*:{Hugs}/libraries

       -Sstr  Set the colon-separated list of source file suffixes to str (default: .hs:.lhs).  A
              null entry in this list will be replaced by the previous suffix list;  a  null  str
              means the default list.

       -Estr  Use  editor  setting  given  by  str  (default: the value of the EDITOR environment
              variable).  Any occurrences of %d and %s in the editor option are replaced  by  the
              start  line  number  and the name of the file to be edited, respectively.  A common
              setting is "vi +%d %s".

       -cnum  Set constraint cutoff limit in the type checker to num (default: 40).

       -Fcmd  Set preprocessor filter for source files to cmd (unset  by  default).   Instead  of
              reading  a source file directly, Hugs will read the standard output of cmd run with
              the source file name as argument.

       -Xstr  The string str is interpreted as an option string.  This is  useful,  for  example,
              for passing multiple arguments to runhugs in a #! script.

COMMANDS

       Once the interpreter has been loaded, the following commands are available:

       :load [modules]   clear all modules except the prelude, and load the specified modules.

       :also modules     read additional modules.

       :reload           repeat last load command.

       :edit file        edit file.

       :edit             edit last file.

       :module module    set module for evaluating expressions.

       expr              evaluate expression.

       :type expr        print type of expression.

       :?                display this list of commands.

       :set options      set command line options.

       :set              help on command line options.

       :names [patterns] list names currently in scope matching any of the shell-style patterns.

       :info names       describe named objects.

       :browse modules   browse names exported by modules.

       :find name        edit file containing definition of name.

       :!command         shell escape.

       :cd dir           change directory.

       :gc               force garbage collection.

       :version          print Hugs version.

       :quit             exit Hugs interpreter.

       Any  command may be abbreviated to :c where c is the first character in the full name.  On
       most systems, you can also exit from Hugs by typing the end-of-file character (^D).

       Note that the interrupt key (^C on most systems) can  be  used  at  any time whilst  using
       Hugs  to  abandon  the  process  of  reading  in  a  file   of function definitions or the
       evaluation  of  an  expression.  When the interrupt is detected, Hugs  prints  the  string
       "{Interrupted!}" and prints the prompt so that further commands can be entered.

STANDALONE PROGRAMS

       The  runhugs command is an interpreter for an executable Hugs script, which must contain a
       Haskell Main module.  For example, the executable file hello might contain the lines

              #!/usr/bin/runhugs +l

              > module Main where
              > main = putStr "Hello, World\n"

       When this file is executed, runhugs will invoke the main function.  Any arguments given on
       the command line will be available through getArgs.

       Note  that  #!  passes  only one orgument to the script.  The -X option may be used to get
       around this.

C INTERFACE

       On architectures that support dynamic linking, Hugs implements the part of the Haskell  98
       Foreign  Function  Interface  (FFI) that allows Haskell functions to call C routines.  (On
       the x86, PowerPC and Sparc architectures, all foreign imports are  supported;  on  others,
       only  static  imports are provided.)  Modules containing such foreign declarations must be
       compiled using the ffihugs command before use with hugs.  Additional arguments for  the  C
       compiler  may  be  supplied  via compiler_arguments.  For example, suppose you have some C
       functions in test.c and some FFI declarations for those functions in Test.hs and the  code
       in  test.c  needs  to  be  compiled  with -lm.  Then you would compile the module with the
       command

              ffihugs Test.hs test.c -lm

       which generates an object file Test.so.  Then when hugs loads Test.hs, it will  also  load
       Test.so.

       In  the  standard  FFI,  each  foreign  import  declaration  should  name  a C header file
       containing the prototype of the function.   Because  this  is  often  cumbersome,  ffihugs
       provides the following additional option:

       -istr  Specify  an  include  for  the  generated  C  file.   The  include string should be
              something that can follow "#include" in a C program, as in

              ffihugs '-i<math.h>' '-i"mydefs.h"' Test.hs test.c -lm

ENVIRONMENT

       HUGSFLAGS
              Additional options for hugs, processed before any given on the command line.

       HUGSDIR
              The Hugs library directory (default: /usr/lib/hugs).

       EDITOR The default editor, if -E is not given.

       SHELL  Used to specify the shell that is invoked by the :! command.

FILES

       /usr/bin/hugs
              executable binary.

       /usr/lib/hugs
              directory containing support files.

WEB REFERENCES

       http://www.haskell.org/hugs/
              The Hugs home page.

       http://www.haskell.org/
              The Haskell home page, including the language definition, various mailing lists and
              much more.

SEE ALSO

       Mark P. Jones et al. Hugs 98 User Manual, June 1999.

       Hugs 98 User's Guide (distributed with Hugs).

       Paul  Hudak  &  Joseph  H. Fasel.  A gentle introduction to Haskell.  ACM SIGPLAN Notices,
       27(5), May 1992.

       S. Peyton Jones  (editor).   Haskell  98  Language  and  Libraries:  The  Revised  Report.
       December 2002.

       Manuel  Chakravarty  et  al.   Haskell  98 Foreign Function Interface 1.0, Addendum to the
       Haskell Report, September 2003.

AUTHOR

       Hugs 98: Mark Jones and others, June 1999.

       Manual page: Jonathan Bowen, modified by Gary Leavens, and then  (with  apologies  to  the
       original  authors)  by Mark Jones.  Updated for Hugs 98 by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho and Ross
       Paterson.  Updated for the March 2005 ffihugs changes by Joseph P. Skudlarek.

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