Re: What does this error message mean

2001-10-30 Thread Richard Watson
At 9:38pm on Oct 30, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My (current) problem lies in whatPic, which returns the error Program error: {whatPic Facing2_North (1,6)} if I type in whatPic North (1,6) or just call it through the draw2 function (which is supposed to be the main drawing function, and

Re: micro-rant

2001-08-08 Thread Richard Watson
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: I totally agree with Gary. In my opinion the unary minus is a anomaly in Haskell which causes a lot of problems while beeing not that useful. For me it is totally okay to use negate x instead of -x. Gary wrote: micro-rant As long as were

Re: Biggest Haskell unit in the world

2001-06-25 Thread Richard Watson
is the parser. This compares favourably with a similar toy compiler in C++ that was used before I took over the course --- it ran to well over 5000 lines! Richard -- Dr Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Mathematics Computing phone: +61 7 4631 5546 University

Re: Haskell Wish list: library documentation

1999-09-10 Thread Richard Watson
The debate about library documentation has been illuminating indeed. I have observed the following: * There have been lots of messages --- more so than most topics that appear on the list. Obviously there is lots of interest; the topic seems be one with which most people have encountered