[Haskell-cafe] ghc: Var/Type length mismatch message - what does it mean?

[Max Bolingbroke]

2009/3/31 John Lask <jvlask at hotmail.com>:
> we get the following message when we load into ghci (6.8.2)
>
> Var/Type length mismatch:
>   []
>   [base:GHC.Base.(){(w) tc 40}]
>
> is this a bug? if not, what is this message telling us ?

I can't reproduce it with 6.10.1, so I presume it is a now-fixed 6.8 bug.

Cheers,
Max