[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Graphalyze-0.4 and SourceGraph-0.2

2008-10-12 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to announce version 0.4 of my Graphalyze library [1] and 0.2 of my SourceGraph programme [2]. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Graphalyze [2]

[Haskell] Could not deduce .. why ?

2008-10-12 Thread Marc Weber
Surely I've overseen a small point. But I can't see it: Why doesn't ghc recognize taht elc_ (class decl), elc (instance decl) and elc_1 are the same type To help you find the connecting pieces faster I've marked them with ## ## Marc data PT a b = PT b -- phantom type containing state a and the

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Graphalyze-0.4 and SourceGraph-0.2

2008-10-12 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.10.12 23:54:44 +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 6.4K characters: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to announce version 0.4 of my Graphalyze library [1] and 0.2 of my SourceGraph programme [2]. [1]

[Haskell] Abusing quickcheck to check existential properties

2008-10-12 Thread Norman Ramsey
I recently used QuickCheck to check on some calculations for image compression. (I love exact rational arithmetic!) But I thought only to check for inverse properties, and I realized afterward I had failed to check for ranges. For example I should have checked that boundedB block = -1 = b b

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Graphalyze-0.4 and SourceGraph-0.2

2008-10-12 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:24:40 -0400 Gwern Branwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I happened to want to look at the output for one of my modules, XMonad.Util.XSelection - and it simply isn't there. Most of the XMC modules seem to be there, but

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Graphalyze-0.4 and SourceGraph-0.2

2008-10-12 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.10.13 09:01:42 +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.3K characters: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:24:40 -0400 Gwern Branwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I happened to want to look at the output for one of my

[GHC] #2687: Lexical error when compiling unicode-prelude-0.1 using GHC 6.10.1 RC1

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2687: Lexical error when compiling unicode-prelude-0.1 using GHC 6.10.1 RC1 -+-- Reporter: albertfong| Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2688: GHC 6.10.0.20081007 hangs instead of giving error about missing type class constraint

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2688: GHC 6.10.0.20081007 hangs instead of giving error about missing type class constraint -+-- Reporter: PVerswyvelen |Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority:

Re: [GHC] #2530: deriving Show adds extra parens for constructor with record syntax

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2530: deriving Show adds extra parens for constructor with record syntax --+- Reporter: spl | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal| Milestone:

[GHC] #2688: GHC 6.10.0.20081007 hangs instead of giving error about missing type class constraint

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2688: GHC 6.10.0.20081007 hangs instead of giving error about missing type class constraint -+-- Reporter: PVerswyvelen | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority:

Re: [GHC] #2687: Lexical error when compiling unicode-prelude-0.1 using GHC 6.10.1 RC1

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2687: Lexical error when compiling unicode-prelude-0.1 using GHC 6.10.1 RC1 +--- Reporter: albertfong | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high

Re: [GHC] #2688: GHC 6.10.0.20081007 hangs instead of giving error about missing type class constraint

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2688: GHC 6.10.0.20081007 hangs instead of giving error about missing type class constraint --+- Reporter: PVerswyvelen | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new

[GHC] #2689: make maintainer-clean leaves generated files and directories

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2689: make maintainer-clean leaves generated files and directories -+-- Reporter: claus | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2497: Weird scoping for tyvars in rules

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2497: Weird scoping for tyvars in rules +--- Reporter: rl | Owner: Type: bug | Status: reopened Priority: high

Re: [GHC] #2563: With -N4: internal error: RELEASE_LOCK: I do not own this lock: Task.c 269

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2563: With -N4: internal error: RELEASE_LOCK: I do not own this lock: Task.c 269 --+- Reporter: TomMD | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2606: Backspace, delete, etc. don't work in ghci in HEAD

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2606: Backspace, delete, etc. don't work in ghci in HEAD +--- Reporter: tim | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi|

Re: [GHC] #2615: ghci doesn't play nice with linker scripts

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2615: ghci doesn't play nice with linker scripts --+- Reporter: AlecBerryman | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal| Milestone: 6.10.2

Re: [GHC] #2624: GHC 10.1 beta build error

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2624: GHC 10.1 beta build error --+- Reporter: humasect | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal| Milestone: Component: Compiler |Version:

Re: [GHC] #2624: GHC 10.1 beta build error

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2624: GHC 10.1 beta build error --+- Reporter: humasect | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: normal| Milestone: Component: Compiler |Version:

Re: [GHC] #2629: Data.List: Replace nub; add nubOrd, nubInt, nubWith

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2629: Data.List: Replace nub; add nubOrd, nubInt, nubWith --+- Reporter: Bart Massey | Owner: Type: proposal | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2640: Treat -X flags consistently in GHCi

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2640: Treat -X flags consistently in GHCi --+- Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2641: Make -XExtendedDeafultRules a bit less liberal

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2641: Make -XExtendedDeafultRules a bit less liberal --+- Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2642: Improve SpecConstr for join points

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2642: Improve SpecConstr for join points --+- Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: run-time performance bug | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2643: Optimized IntMap / IntSet construction from sorted input

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2643: Optimized IntMap / IntSet construction from sorted input ---+ Reporter: sedillard | Owner: Type: proposal | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2644: type of IntMap.intersection[WithKey] is incorrect

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2644: type of IntMap.intersection[WithKey] is incorrect ---+ Reporter: sedillard | Owner: Type: bug| Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2645: fix type, performance of IntMap(Set).findMin(Max)

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2645: fix type, performance of IntMap(Set).findMin(Max) ---+ Reporter: sedillard | Owner: Type: proposal | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2646: Expand folding options for Sets and Maps

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2646: Expand folding options for Sets and Maps ---+ Reporter: sedillard | Owner: Type: proposal | Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: [GHC] #2650: System.Process: processes may unwantedly inherit Handles on Windows when multithreading

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2650: System.Process: processes may unwantedly inherit Handles on Windows when multithreading ---+ Reporter: Deewiant | Owner: simonmar Type: bug| Status: new

Re: [GHC] #2651: BlockedIndefinitely not thrown when it should be

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2651: BlockedIndefinitely not thrown when it should be --+- Reporter: govereau | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2652: fancier prompts for ghci

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2652: fancier prompts for ghci --+- Reporter: jsnx | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal| Milestone: 6.10

Re: [GHC] #2655: Control.Exception's Haddock document drop instruction about Extensible Exceptions

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2655: Control.Exception's Haddock document drop instruction about Extensible Exceptions --+- Reporter: shelarcy | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new

Re: [GHC] #2656: GHC API document isn't linked from any document

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2656: GHC API document isn't linked from any document --+- Reporter: shelarcy | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high |

Re: [GHC] #2657: DPH Haddock document isn't linked from Libraries document

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2657: DPH Haddock document isn't linked from Libraries document --+- Reporter: shelarcy | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high

Re: [GHC] #2660: Add Down newtype wrapper for reversing orderings

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2660: Add Down newtype wrapper for reversing orderings --+- Reporter: twanvl| Owner: Type: proposal | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2668: Standalone deriving doesn't do newtype deriving properly

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2668: Standalone deriving doesn't do newtype deriving properly --+- Reporter: ryani | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2669: index out of range error message regression

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2669: index out of range error message regression --+- Reporter: claus | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2671: Data.Time.Clock parseTime's %y parses 08 as 1908

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2671: Data.Time.Clock parseTime's %y parses 08 as 1908 --+- Reporter: simonmic | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2672: Provide GHC Haddock documentation at standard location

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2672: Provide GHC Haddock documentation at standard location --+- Reporter: nominolo | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: high

Re: [GHC] #2675: Malformed pragma causes hang under emacs

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2675: Malformed pragma causes hang under emacs -+-- Reporter: ezrakilty| Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2677: Detection of TF instance conflict depends on instance order

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2677: Detection of TF instance conflict depends on instance order -+-- Reporter: reinerp | Owner: chak Type: bug | Status: new

Re: [GHC] #2679: dph build failure on Sparc Solaris 10 for ghc-6.10.0.20081007

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2679: dph build failure on Sparc Solaris 10 for ghc-6.10.0.20081007 --+- Reporter: maeder| Owner: rl Type: bug | Status: assigned Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2685: Panic in harpy with GHC 6.10 RC

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2685: Panic in harpy with GHC 6.10 RC --+- Reporter: dons | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone:

[GHC] #2690: Problem building HEAD when a newer version of Cabal is installed

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2690: Problem building HEAD when a newer version of Cabal is installed ---+ Reporter: judah | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: Compiler

Re: [GHC] #2671: Data.Time.Clock parseTime's %y parses 08 as 1908

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2671: Data.Time.Clock parseTime's %y parses 08 as 1908 ---+ Reporter: simonmic | Owner: Type: bug| Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2689: make maintainer-clean leaves generated files and directories

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2689: make maintainer-clean leaves generated files and directories --+- Reporter: claus | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2658: Extreme memory usage

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2658: Extreme memory usage -+-- Reporter: guest| Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high |

Re: [GHC] #2063: Breackage on OpenBSD due to mmap remap

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2063: Breackage on OpenBSD due to mmap remap +--- Reporter: dons| Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone:

Re: [GHC] #2337: Data.Array documentation utterly broken

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2337: Data.Array documentation utterly broken --+- Reporter: japple| Owner: igloo Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high |

Re: [GHC] #2081: GHC reports internal error: stg_ap_v_ret

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2081: GHC reports internal error: stg_ap_v_ret -+-- Reporter: thorkilnaur | Owner: simonmar Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 6.10.1

[GHC] #2691: runghc sets terminal ctrl-s to XOFF in ghc-6.10.0.20081007-i386-unknown-linux-libedit2

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2691: runghc sets terminal ctrl-s to XOFF in ghc-6.10.0.20081007-i386-unknown- linux-libedit2 ---+ Reporter: dancor | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: [GHC] #2691: runghc sets terminal ctrl-s to XOFF in ghc-6.10.0.20081007-i386-unknown-linux-libedit2

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2691: runghc sets terminal ctrl-s to XOFF in ghc-6.10.0.20081007-i386-unknown- linux-libedit2 -+-- Reporter: dancor|Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2584: Pretty printing of types with HsDocTy goes wrong

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2584: Pretty printing of types with HsDocTy goes wrong --+- Reporter: NeilMitchell | Owner: waern Type: bug | Status: assigned Priority: high |

Re: [GHC] #2677: Detection of TF instance conflict depends on instance order

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2677: Detection of TF instance conflict depends on instance order -+-- Reporter: reinerp | Owner: chak Type: bug | Status: new

Re: [GHC] #2691: runghc sets terminal ctrl-s to XOFF in ghc-6.10.0.20081007-i386-unknown-linux-libedit2

2008-10-12 Thread GHC
#2691: runghc sets terminal ctrl-s to XOFF in ghc-6.10.0.20081007-i386-unknown- linux-libedit2 -+-- Reporter: dancor|Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: Parsec in 6.10 RC 1

2008-10-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:10:53PM -0700, Greg Fitzgerald wrote: The instance for Functor (Either ParserError) disappeared. Is that intentional? The instance is still in Control.Monad.Instances. The problem with the instance is that Haskell 98 doesn't say that it exists, so we can't put it

2008-10-12 Hackage status with GHC 6.10 release candidate

2008-10-12 Thread Don Stewart
Hey all. The GHC 6.10 RCs are out, and we're preparing the release. To help manage the transistion to GHC 6.10 it is now possible to actually build all the 3rd party Haskell packages, and publish their results wrt. the release candidate. For the first time ever, we're able to have all the 3rd

[Haskell-cafe] Real World Haskell Chapter 11 ... Testing

2008-10-12 Thread Galchin, Vasili
Hi, Testing of pure code ... . way cool ... I am sure there literature from the first order logic, model theory, categorical logic viewpoint?? Kind regards, Vasili ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Ubuntu Haskell

2008-10-12 Thread Ariel J. Birnbaum
Have you thought about doing this for Ubuntu? If you know how to automatically generate packages, you could set up a PPA (private package archive) on Launchpad. I've spoken with Jeremy Shaw, who has similar systems in place, based also on Cabal (and cabal-install), for generating native

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-12 Thread Andrew Appleyard
Jason Dagit wrote: Thank you for releasing this! No worries. I might never have got around to releasing it if it wasn't for the encouragement of Manuel Chakravarty, Don Stewart, and others. Thanks guys! [...] as I understand it the Haskell you write still lives in Haskell-land and the .NET

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANN] Haskell Cheatsheet v1.0

2008-10-12 Thread Andrew Coppin
Justin Bailey wrote: Thanks to everyone for their feedback. I've made some updates and posted the PDF to my blog: http://blog.codeslower.com/2008/10/The-Haskell-Cheatsheet I was wondering why there isn't a PDF directly downloadable anywhere... ;-) FWIW, I just learned something by

[Haskell-cafe] Pandoc questions

2008-10-12 Thread Andrew Coppin
There doesn't seem to be any option to make Pandoc produce actual MathML output. Is there a reason for this? (The only option I can see is to spit out raw LaTeX plus a 70KB JavaScript program to transform this into MathML at the client end --- which seems a little silly to me. There's also no

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Shooting your self in the foot with Haskell

2008-10-12 Thread Luke Palmer
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Simon Richard Clarkstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Darnit Thunderbird, why don't you DWIM when I hit reply or reply-all?) You're not writing about Perl, you're writing about Haskell! It should have been a type error. Luke

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to translate Haskell to other languages?

2008-10-12 Thread Matthew
Hi Jason, So in an automatic translation I would replace partial application with lambdas. This shouldn't be a problem right? suppose f is a 3-argument function, and you encounter the application f x. One possible translation would be to replace f x with (\y. \z. f (x,y,z)) I don't know

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell on the JVM

2008-10-12 Thread Jon Harrop
On Saturday 11 October 2008 17:45:39 John A. De Goes wrote: I have strong interest in hosting GHC on the JVM. And I suspect it would be good for the Haskell community, as the JVM already runs on nearly every machine known to man, has a wealth of cross-platform libraries, and is getting

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell on the JVM

2008-10-12 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On Oct 12, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Jon Harrop wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2008 17:45:39 John A. De Goes wrote: I have strong interest in hosting GHC on the JVM. And I suspect it would be good for the Haskell community, as the JVM already runs on nearly every machine known to man, has a wealth of

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Graphalyze-0.4 and SourceGraph-0.2

2008-10-12 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to announce version 0.4 of my Graphalyze library [1] and 0.2 of my SourceGraph programme [2]. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Graphalyze [2]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Pandoc questions

2008-10-12 Thread David Menendez
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, while Markdown *almost* does what I want, there are a few small constructs it doesn't have. For example, I'd like to have some way to denote a term the first time I use it. I could just use italics, but I'd prefer

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell on the JVM

2008-10-12 Thread frantisek kocun
There is CAL language (purely functional, very Haskell like, the most I have seen). CAL Eclipse plugin (IDE for CAL for non java-ers) is incredible, with support for code comletition, documentation, refactor, code navigation.. They have graphical editor GemCutter for it as well. You can use java

[Haskell-cafe] Could not deduce .. why ?

2008-10-12 Thread Marc Weber
Surely I've overseen a small point. But I can't see it: Why doesn't ghc recognize taht elc_ (class decl), elc (instance decl) and elc_1 are the same type To help you find the connecting pieces faster I've marked them with ## ## Marc data PT a b = PT b -- phantom type containing state a and the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Pandoc questions

2008-10-12 Thread Andrew Coppin
David Menendez wrote: Markdown allows arbitrary HTML tags, so you can just put the terms in a dfn element. I don't know if that will work with the LaTeX conversion. Markdown is specifically designed to produce HTML, so it's not clear to me how Pandoc does any of the non-HTML output formats.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Could not deduce .. why ?

2008-10-12 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 17:38 schrieb Marc Weber: Surely I've overseen a small point. But I can't see it: Why doesn't ghc recognize taht elc_ (class decl), elc (instance decl) and elc_1 are the same type To help you find the connecting pieces faster I've marked them with ## ## Marc

[Haskell-cafe] Still stacking monad transformers

2008-10-12 Thread Andrew Coppin
I am becoming extremely frustrated now. The task I want to perform is simple, yet I simply cannot make Haskell do what I want. I've given up hope of ever getting my program to handle infinite result sets. That means I can make do with just ListT. So I have the following monad: type MyMonad

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Still stacking monad transformers

2008-10-12 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:08 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: I am becoming extremely frustrated now. The task I want to perform is simple, yet I simply cannot make Haskell do what I want. I've given up hope of ever getting my program to handle infinite result sets. That means I can make do with

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Still stacking monad transformers

2008-10-12 Thread Miguel Mitrofanov
On 12 Oct 2008, at 21:08, Andrew Coppin wrote: I found that by using the brief and easily memorable construction runIdentity $ runListT $ runStateT foo state I can get at the result set for each action, and combine them. But nothing in hell seems to transform this from [((), MyState)]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Still stacking monad transformers

2008-10-12 Thread David Menendez
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am becoming extremely frustrated now. The task I want to perform is simple, yet I simply cannot make Haskell do what I want. I've given up hope of ever getting my program to handle infinite result sets. Did you miss

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Constraints at construction

2008-10-12 Thread Iain Barnett
On 12 Oct 2008, at 9:28 pm, Henning Thielemann wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Iain Barnett wrote: If I were to create an object in C#, for instance, I could add code to the constructor that might limit the type further e.g. public class Car { string model; int wheels;

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Still stacking monad transformers

2008-10-12 Thread wren ng thornton
David Menendez wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am becoming extremely frustrated now. The task I want to perform is simple, yet I simply cannot make Haskell do what I want. I've given up hope of ever getting my program to handle infinite result

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overlapping/Incoherent instances

2008-10-12 Thread wren ng thornton
J. Garrett Morris wrote: Hello everyone, As part of a project to formalize the theory of overlapping instances, I'm looking for examples of overlapping and incoherent instances and their usage. One such example would be the old version of the Monad Transformer Library, which used overlapping

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overlapping/Incoherent instances

2008-10-12 Thread Marc Weber
MonadTrans. Any other examples or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! All the OOHAskell stuff? Marc ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overlapping/Incoherent instances

2008-10-12 Thread Don Stewart
jgmorris: Hello everyone, As part of a project to formalize the theory of overlapping instances, I'm looking for examples of overlapping and incoherent instances and their usage. One such example would be the old version of the Monad Transformer Library, which used overlapping instances

[Haskell-cafe] 2008-10-12 Hackage status with GHC 6.10 release candidate

2008-10-12 Thread Don Stewart
Hey all. The GHC 6.10 RCs are out, and we're preparing the release. To help manage the transistion to GHC 6.10 it is now possible to actually build all the 3rd party Haskell packages, and publish their results wrt. the release candidate. For the first time ever, we're able to have all the 3rd

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overlapping/Incoherent instances

2008-10-12 Thread wren ng thornton
Don Stewart wrote: A quick, ad hoc search reveals, for the OverlappingInstances flag, (some of these may only mention it in docs or in test suites), [...] logfloat-0.9.1 Ah yes, logfloat is using them too, for some of the auxiliary stuff. * PartialOrd was designed to fix certain

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Graphalyze-0.4 and SourceGraph-0.2

2008-10-12 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:24:40 -0400 Gwern Branwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I happened to want to look at the output for one of my modules, XMonad.Util.XSelection - and it simply isn't there. Most of the XMC modules seem to be there, but

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Graphalyze-0.4 and SourceGraph-0.2

2008-10-12 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.10.13 09:01:42 +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 1.3K characters: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:24:40 -0400 Gwern Branwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I happened to want to look at the output for one of my

[Haskell-cafe] Error building GHC 6.8.3: version of ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace could not be determined

2008-10-12 Thread Devin Mullins
Hi, I'm trying to build 6.8.3 on Linux PowerPC, based on an old binary of 6.4 (latest build for this arch that I found). stage1 seems to have built, but from there, building libraries almost immediately fails: make -C libraries all make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overlapping/Incoherent instances

2008-10-12 Thread J. Garrett Morris
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though I note mtl doesn't actually list OverlappingInstances in its .cabal file, Indeed - MTL seems to have been rewritten at some point in the past to prefer exhaustive enumeration to overlap. Thank you for the other

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Interesting new user perspective

2008-10-12 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:13 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote: I've got a Haskell book here (Hutton, 170 pages) that doesn't even mention how to open a file! That short, and you expect minor features like that (that not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Interesting new user perspective

2008-10-12 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:39:58PM -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:13 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote: I've got a Haskell book here (Hutton, 170 pages) that doesn't even mention how to open a file!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Interesting new user perspective

2008-10-12 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 21:34 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:39:58PM -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:13 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote: I've got a Haskell book here (Hutton, 170

[Haskell-cafe] the ghc reflection thing?

2008-10-12 Thread Galchin, Vasili
hello, Several months ago I saw on the wiki or maybe it was a discussion on mechanism to get the ghc compiler's state. I can't remember enough to ask even well. I know there is a wiki entry. Sorry ... I can only hint at this ... ?? Thanks, Vasili

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Error building GHC 6.8.3: version of ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace could not be determined

2008-10-12 Thread Devin Mullins
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:03:30PM -0700, Devin Mullins wrote: I'm trying to build 6.8.3 on Linux PowerPC, based on an old binary of 6.4 (latest build for this arch that I found). stage1 seems to have built, but from there, building libraries almost immediately fails: Configuring

Re: [Haskell-cafe] the ghc reflection thing?

2008-10-12 Thread Bernie Pope
Hi Vasili, Perhaps you are looking for GHC as a library: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/As_a_library Cheers, Bernie. On 13/10/2008, at 2:26 PM, Galchin, Vasili wrote: hello, Several months ago I saw on the wiki or maybe it was a discussion on mechanism to get the ghc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] the ghc reflection thing?

2008-10-12 Thread Galchin, Vasili
Hi Bernie, yep ... thanks! Regards, Vasili On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Bernie Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Vasili, Perhaps you are looking for GHC as a library: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/As_a_library Cheers, Bernie. On 13/10/2008, at 2:26 PM, Galchin,