Re: [Haskell-cafe] Preview the new haddock look and take a short survey
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Mark Lentczner ma...@glyphic.com wrote: The Haddock team has spent the last few months revamping the look of the generated output. We're pretty close to done, but we'd like to get the community's input before we put it in the main release. Please take a look, and then give us your feedback through a short survey Sample pages: http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/snap-xhtml/index.html Frame version: http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/snap-xhtml/frames.html Survey: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHcwYzdMNkl5WER1aVBXdV9HX1l5U3c6MQ Short link to same survey: http://bit.ly/9Zvs9B Thanks! - Mark Mark Lentczner http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/ irc: MtnViewMark The index page is not rendered properly on Firefox 3.0.18 on 64-bit Ubuntu: http://imgur.com/Ez6Ki.jpg. Note that the package name a module comes from is not aligned with the module. The synopsis pull-out box is also not rendered properly: http://imgur.com/Ez6KicfdfMl. The `Synopsis' tab is raised an inch or so above the box, long type signatures are truncated, and the nested scroll bar is obscured. I also really dislike nested scroll bars in web pages. Best, Brad ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and the Software design process
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: I don't believe anyone has written a Programming Haskell in the Large book (or any other similar functional language??), but there is lots of experience in this community working on big, long lived code bases. Some key points: [...] * picking a good data type (like a zipper) will make hundreds of unit tests meaningless -- improving productivity. Don, What sort of tests were you thinking of that a zipper would render pointless? Could you elaborate? Thanks, Brad ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and the Software design process
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Edgar Z. Alvarenga ed...@ymonad.com wrote: On Sun, 02/May/2010 at 13:10 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: * Avoid partial functions Why? Edgar Ever place you use a partial function, you need to verify that its usage is in fact safe. Otherwise, you risk pattern match failures, undefined, nontermination, and other types of nasties. If you can structure your code so none of your functions are partial, verification that their usage is safe is a whole lot easier. :-) Brad ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] mtl design (was ``What do _you_ want to see in FGL?'')
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Whilst freezing it is an option, I feel that this will lead to the same problems that we already face with mtl: most people agree/know that the approach/design is bad, but we keep using it because there's no (one) viable alternative to be used (and thus mtl stays in the Platform, which means more people use it, and thus we have this vicious cycle). Ivan, Could you elaborate on what you mean regarding the mtl approach design? What makes them bad? Sincerely, Brad ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Seeking the correct quote
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jacques Carette care...@mcmaster.ca wrote: I have heard generic programming described tongue-in-cheek as the kind of polymorphism that a language does not (yet) have. I find this description rather apt, and it matches fairly what I see called 'generic' in various communities. But who said this, where and when? Jacques ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe I don't have the book handy (it was from the library), but I seem to remember reading something along those lines in ``Datatype-Generic Programming: International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK, April 24-27, 2006, Revised Lectures'', edited by Backhouse, Gibbons, Hinze, and Jeuring. There's a lead for you, at least! Regards, Brad ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
