Just installed the current Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0, which says it uses base-4.5.0.0, and base-4.5.0.0 includes the GHC.TypeLits module.
However, when I try to load GHC.TypeLits, ghc can’t find it:
% ghci --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.1
% ghci
GHCi, version 7.4.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Prelude> :m +GHC.TypeLits
<no location info>:
Could not find module `GHC.TypeLits'
Perhaps you meant GHC.Types (from ghc-prim)
Prelude>
% ghc-pkg list base
/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/7.4.1-i386/usr/lib/ghc-7.4.1/package.conf.d
base-4.5.0.0
% ghc-pkg describe base
name: base
version: 4.5.0.0
id: base-4.5.0.0-a732a3518af7589b6c46f83e8ceae384
license: BSD3
copyright:
maintainer: libraries@haskell.org
stability:
homepage:
package-url:
synopsis: Basic libraries
description: This package contains the Prelude and its support libraries,
and a large collection of useful libraries ranging from data
structures to parsing combinators and debugging utilities.
category:
author:
exposed: True
exposed-modules: Foreign.Concurrent GHC.Arr GHC.Base GHC.Conc
GHC.Conc.IO GHC.Conc.Signal GHC.Conc.Sync GHC.ConsoleHandler
GHC.Constants GHC.Desugar GHC.Enum GHC.Environment GHC.Err
GHC.Exception GHC.Exts GHC.Fingerprint GHC.Fingerprint.Type
GHC.Float GHC.Float.ConversionUtils GHC.Float.RealFracMethods
GHC.Foreign GHC.ForeignPtr GHC.Handle GHC.IO GHC.IO.Buffer
GHC.IO.BufferedIO GHC.IO.Device GHC.IO.Encoding
GHC.IO.Encoding.CodePage GHC.IO.Encoding.Failure
GHC.IO.Encoding.Iconv GHC.IO.Encoding.Latin1 GHC.IO.Encoding.Types
GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF16 GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF32 GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF8
GHC.IO.Exception GHC.IO.FD GHC.IO.Handle GHC.IO.Handle.FD
GHC.IO.Handle.Internals GHC.IO.Handle.Text GHC.IO.Handle.Types
GHC.IO.IOMode GHC.IOArray GHC.IOBase GHC.IORef GHC.Int GHC.List
GHC.MVar GHC.Num GHC.PArr GHC.Pack GHC.Ptr GHC.Read GHC.Real GHC.ST
GHC.Stack GHC.Stats GHC.Show GHC.Stable GHC.Storable GHC.STRef
GHC.TopHandler GHC.Unicode GHC.Weak GHC.Word System.Timeout
GHC.Event Control.Applicative Control.Arrow Control.Category
Control.Concurrent Control.Concurrent.Chan Control.Concurrent.MVar
Control.Concurrent.QSem Control.Concurrent.QSemN
Control.Concurrent.SampleVar Control.Exception
Control.Exception.Base Control.OldException Control.Monad
Control.Monad.Fix Control.Monad.Instances Control.Monad.ST
Control.Monad.ST.Safe Control.Monad.ST.Unsafe Control.Monad.ST.Lazy
Control.Monad.ST.Lazy.Safe Control.Monad.ST.Lazy.Unsafe
Control.Monad.ST.Strict Control.Monad.Zip Data.Bits Data.Bool
Data.Char Data.Complex Data.Dynamic Data.Either Data.Eq Data.Data
Data.Fixed Data.Foldable Data.Function Data.Functor Data.HashTable
Data.IORef Data.Int Data.Ix Data.List Data.Maybe Data.Monoid
Data.Ord Data.Ratio Data.STRef Data.STRef.Lazy Data.STRef.Strict
Data.String Data.Traversable Data.Tuple Data.Typeable
Data.Typeable.Internal Data.Unique Data.Version Data.Word
Debug.Trace Foreign Foreign.C Foreign.C.Error Foreign.C.String
Foreign.C.Types Foreign.ForeignPtr Foreign.ForeignPtr.Safe
Foreign.ForeignPtr.Unsafe Foreign.Marshal Foreign.Marshal.Alloc
Foreign.Marshal.Array Foreign.Marshal.Error Foreign.Marshal.Pool
Foreign.Marshal.Safe Foreign.Marshal.Utils Foreign.Marshal.Unsafe
Foreign.Ptr Foreign.Safe Foreign.StablePtr Foreign.Storable Numeric
Prelude System.Console.GetOpt System.CPUTime System.Environment
System.Exit System.IO System.IO.Error System.IO.Unsafe System.Info
System.Mem System.Mem.StableName System.Mem.Weak
System.Posix.Internals System.Posix.Types
Text.ParserCombinators.ReadP Text.ParserCombinators.ReadPrec
Text.Printf Text.Read Text.Read.Lex Text.Show Text.Show.Functions
Unsafe.Coerce
hidden-modules: GHC.Event.Array GHC.Event.Clock GHC.Event.Control
GHC.Event.EPoll GHC.Event.IntMap GHC.Event.Internal
GHC.Event.KQueue GHC.Event.Manager GHC.Event.PSQ GHC.Event.Poll
GHC.Event.Thread GHC.Event.Unique Control.Monad.ST.Imp
Control.Monad.ST.Lazy.Imp Foreign.ForeignPtr.Imp
trusted: False
import-dirs: /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/7.4.1-i386/usr/lib/ghc-7.4.1/base-4.5.0.0
library-dirs: /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/7.4.1-i386/usr/lib/ghc-7.4.1/base-4.5.0.0
hs-libraries: HSbase-4.5.0.0
extra-libraries: iconv
extra-ghci-libraries:
include-dirs: /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/7.4.1-i386/usr/lib/ghc-7.4.1/base-4.5.0.0/include
includes: HsBase.h
depends: ghc-prim-0.2.0.0-bd29cb1ca1b712d64e00ac9207f87d0a
integer-gmp-0.4.0.0-ec87c5d9609a1d46da031ef5d51c4f79 builtin_rts
hugs-options:
cc-options:
ld-options:
framework-dirs:
frameworks:
haddock-interfaces: /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/7.4.1-i386/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/base.haddock
haddock-html: /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/7.4.1-i386/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0
pkgroot: "/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/7.4.1-i386/usr/lib/ghc-7.4.1"
%
So what’s going on? Am I wrong to assume that GHC.TypeLits should be available with the current Haskell Platform? Or am I skipping a step needed to make it available to me?
Something seems fishy with the documentation page you linked to. Your GHC claims to be 7.4.1, which does appear to use
base-4.5.0.0, and both the GHC library documentation and the Hackage page showbase-4.5.0.0as not includingGHC.TypeLits. This is entirely reasonable, because GHC 7.4.1 doesn’t support type literals, unlike GHC 7.6.1.