Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-30 Thread Rene de Visser
What are the plans for http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5623 which seems to be still open? Quoting form the ticket ... Just to spam a little more, it seems that the HEAD happily duplicates all computations on unboxed types. It even duplicates x+x in this example: foo :: Float - Float

Re: [Haskell-cafe] network 2.3.05 on windows 7 with ghc-7.2.1

2011-09-28 Thread Rene de Visser
Sai Hemanth K saihema...@gmail.com schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:canok7kum7-g5bwhj6btrraruykyl1xyltfr9rd4ke5sovbi...@mail.gmail.com... Hi, Apologies if this is an off-topic for the list, If someone here managed to build network 2.3.05 on windows 7 with ghc-7.2.1 , could you kindly pass

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHCI Feature Request: Last SuccessfulCompilation State Saved

2011-08-28 Thread Rene de Visser
Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:201108272331.01371.daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com... On Saturday 27 August 2011, 23:10:17, David Virebayre wrote: 2011/8/27 aditya siram aditya.si...@gmail.com: Hi all, I would like for the GHCI interpreter to

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-02 Thread Rene de Visser
Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:20110729182136.ga2...@matrix.chaos.earth.li... We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.2.1: Is it normal for the windows build to have 99 unexpected failures?

[Haskell] Windows installer 7.02. HTML docu index.html needs fixing.

2011-03-03 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello Ian, Index.html in the windows installer needs fixing up as well. In currently contains the haddock help find instead of the master contents with the usual entries (GHC user guide, libraries, ghc api etc). It was also a bit cleaner in ghc 6.12.3 with the separate users_guide directory.

ghc 6.12.3: Data.Array.Diff and package diffarray

2010-06-29 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello, According to the release notes there is a new package that now contains the module Data.Array.Diff. According to Ian's commit this package is called diffarray. This package does not seem to be available on Hackage. Could someone upload it? Rene.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: hxt memory useage

2008-01-28 Thread Rene de Visser
Uwe Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] this statement isn't true in general. HXT itself can be incremental, if there is no need for traversing the whole XML tree. When processing a document containing a DTD, indeed there is a need even when no validation

[Haskell-cafe] Re: hxt memory useage

2008-01-25 Thread Rene de Visser
Matthew Pocock [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 24 January 2008, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: Matthew Pocock wrote: I've been using hxt to process xml files. Now that my files are getting a bit bigger (30m) I'm finding that hxt uses inordinate

[Haskell-cafe] Re: XML parser recommendation?

2007-10-23 Thread Rene de Visser
Uwe Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] it into HXT. This still does not solve the processing of very very large XML document. I doubt, whether we can do this with a DOM like approach, as in HXT or HaXml. Lazy input does not solve all problems. A SAX like

[Haskell-cafe] Re: XML parser recommendation?

2007-10-22 Thread Rene de Visser
Yitzchak Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Thielemann wrote: HXT uses Parsec, which is strict. I had a look at using HXT awhile ago. Parsec is the least of the problems. HXT stores the XML as an explicit tree in memory, where the head has explict

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Code from Why Functional Programming Matters

2007-09-04 Thread Rene de Visser
Andrew Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] current position (or, even more ideally, the so-called principal variation, which is the best series of moves from the current position). Is there a good way to collect this, without mapping some sort of function

Re: [Haskell] ghc as a library and profiling

2007-08-30 Thread Rene de Visser
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, by default we don't build or supply the GHC package with profiling, because of the extra bloat it would add to the downloads and the time taken to build it. Why is a program so large when I use the GHC module?

[Haskell-cafe] Re: quoting in Haskell

2007-08-27 Thread Rene de Visser
Peter Verswyvelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In Scheme, on can quote code, so that it becomes data. Microsoft's F# and C# 3.0 also have something similar that turns code into expression trees. The latter is used extensively in LINQ which translates plain

[Haskell] Re: View patterns in GHC: Request for feedback

2007-07-24 Thread Rene de Visser
Claus Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] though I'm extremely dubious about the utility of the Maybe patterns. actually, they are the main thing that interests me about view patterns!-) type Typ unit :: Typ - Maybe () arrow :: Type - Maybe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] View patterns in GHC: Request forfeedback

2007-07-23 Thread Rene de Visser
Simon PJ and I are implementing view patterns, a way of pattern matching against abstract datatypes, in GHC. Our design is described here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ViewPatterns If you have any comments or suggestions about this design, we'd love to hear them. You can

Feature request/help: evaluating template haskell at runtime

2007-05-20 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello, I am attempting some genetic programming in Haskell. Rather than defining my own data type for programs and writing my own interpreter, I want to use the template haskell expression data types and evaluate them with the rts's byte code interpreter. This gives me a nice fast interpreter

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Mathematica

2007-05-11 Thread Rene de Visser
How difficult would it be to implement Mathematica in Haskell? Why don't you use axiom? It already has several 100 of years man effort put into it. Or for dynamically type package you could use Maxima. Both are free. Rene. ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: Release plans: esc branch

2007-04-17 Thread Rene de Visser
What are the plans for the esc branch? Are the changing going to be merged? Rene. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: Release plans

2007-04-16 Thread Rene de Visser
I vote for 6.8. Rene. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

[Haskell-cafe] Re: HS-Plugins 1.0 chokes on simple test, WinXP GHC-6.6

2007-03-09 Thread Rene de Visser
Alistair Bayley [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this using the darcs repository version of hs-plugins? That's the only versions that works with 6.6 Just got, built, and installed the repo version, and it has the same problem. Alistair You managed to

[Haskell] Dynamic database updated by list using existential types

2007-02-05 Thread Rene de Visser
The following code took me several hours to work out. I post it here, so perhaps other can avoid the difficulties of working out how to use existential types. Improvements welcome. If anyone thinks it is worth it I could add it to the wiki under existential types (I didn't find the examples

Re: [Haskell] Views in Haskell

2007-01-24 Thread Rene de Visser
In my opinion, views are going to make more Haskell more complicated, and from what I have seen so far, for little gain. Maybe a poll should be made to see what features the average Haskeller feels the most in need of. Or what their greatest problems are. Going by the traffic over the previous

Re: [Haskell] GHC Error question

2006-12-08 Thread Rene de Visser
There may be a heuristic that would help more programs to go through... but I prefer asking the programmer to make the desired behaviour explicit. Simon How can the user make this explicit? With the class C a b where op :: a - a instance C Int Int where op a = -a test d = op d

Re: building GHC (head) on windows MINGW: HsRegexPosixConfig.h: Nosuch file or directory

2006-10-05 Thread Rene de Visser
 Brian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On 9/30/06, Rene de Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to install for the regex library support on MINGW?It looks like the regex library needs the posix library, and in my

Re: (Windows) ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Second Release Candidate

2006-10-02 Thread Rene de Visser
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ Hello Ian, Is it on purpose that the lastest windows build does not include cabal-install? Since the September builds I don't see any logs for the mingw build? Rene.

building GHC (head) on windows MINGW: HsRegexPosixConfig.h: No such file or directory

2006-09-30 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello, What do I need to install for the regex library support on MINGW? It looks like the regex library needs the posix library, and in my MINGW / MSYS installation I don't find one (and neither does configure). Rene. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users

more fixups for GHC docs: ddump flags

2006-09-27 Thread Rene de Visser
The flags under section 4.17.26. Compiler debugging options seem to be out of date. They seem to be wrong for both 6.42 and 6.6 For example --ddump-cmm is not listed, but works. But --ddump-absC is listed, and gives the error unknown flag. I can't get -ddump-stix to work either. Gone, or

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Haskell web forum

2006-09-21 Thread Rene de Visser
I'll just add myself onto the list of webforum haters. I find gmane over a news reader much more comfortable that any webforums I have used. Perhaps gmane can be used over a web interface? Then those that want to use a web forum have one, and I can continue to use my news reader. When I want

Re: small errors in ghc 6.6

2006-09-19 Thread Rene de Visser
Tomasz Zielonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW. The -fno-recomp option has a very unintuitive name, at least for me. When I see -fno-recomp, my brain thinks no recompilation, meaning no unneccesary recompilation, which is what --make does by default. Using

internal error: asyncRead#, ghci and fps (windows) (trac 806)

2006-09-19 Thread Rene de Visser
Is there anyway to turn off that ghci runs in threaded mode on windows? fps 0.8 (and software that uses fps) triggers trac error #806. This means that I cannot run such things interactively :-( Rene. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: Program slower with local definitions

2006-09-05 Thread Rene de Visser
Michael Marte [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello *, I noticed a five percent speed up by making local definitions global. Maybe the global defintions are monomorphic, and the local defintions are polymorphic. You could evaluate the types of the global types

Re: instance overlap in 6.6 candidate

2006-09-04 Thread Rene de Visser
Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag | | This gives the user possibility to redefine a certain part of the | library instance. | Is not ghc-6.4.1 better at this point? Perhaps. That's what I'd like feedback about. What do others think? ... Simon What are the

GHC 6.5 error? Illegal polymorphic or qualified type

2006-04-16 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello, I tried to compile HAppS using the latest GHC snapshot (in compiles fine with 6.41). I for example get the error /home/rene/repos/HAppS/src/HAppS/MACID/Var.hs:23:0: Illegal polymorphic or qualified type: forall state event. Ev state event

inside the GHC code generator

2006-02-23 Thread Rene de Visser
The following link gives reasons for not generating via C http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8selm=4zp8kn7xe.fsf_-_%40beta.franz.com Naturally a number of these are common lisp specific, however I think that Haskell and GCC are quite semantically different, so using GCC might

Re: inside the GHC code generator

2006-02-23 Thread Rene de Visser
seems that you don;t understand the situation. ghc compiles Haskell to language called core, do almost all optimizations at level of this language, then translates final result to the STG language from that the C-- code is generated. changing the translation of STG can't prevent ANY ghc

Re: inside the GHC code generator

2006-02-23 Thread Rene de Visser
From: Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Rene, i done reading. my question - is YOU read this? the lisp problems have almost nothing in common with haskell It is a long time since i read this, but some things come to mind. Listed below. Maybe GHC should generate better C. I am

RE: Re[2]: inside the GHC code generator

2006-02-23 Thread Rene de Visser
From: Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] i answered in the original letter (search for Cray :) Re-reading this, I see that you have a well defined goals that cover most of my points. seems that you don't seen the attached files. tail calls are optimized in gcc No I don't see any

Proposal: Improved error message of Error in array index

2005-11-08 Thread Rene de Visser
One idea that occurred to us recently is this: GHCi could provide a simplified version of the cost-centre-stack machinery *all the time*, Simon This still doesn't explain to me why C:\Haskell\devmain +RTS -xc gave GHC.Arr.CAFmain: Error in array index (This is with full profiling

Proposal: Improved error message of Error in array index

2005-11-06 Thread Rene de Visser
I suggest that the code in GHC.Arr be changed from error Error in array index to error Error in array index ++ show b ++ show i so that the bounds and offending index is shown. This is easy to do as the information is already available, and would in most cases be of great help to the user

Array operations and pinning

2005-11-02 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello, Where is the documentation on how pinning works in the GHC garbage collector (from a GHC users point of view). I have copied the following code from array/IO.hs and am thinking that it is assuming that the array is pinned? What triggers the pinning? On a second note. Why is the type

[Haskell] Writing large n-dim un-boxed array of Int32 quickly?

2005-10-31 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello, I want to write a multi-dimensional unboxed arrary of Int32 to a file. (And also read it back later). What I tried so far is import NewBinary.Binary ... mapM_ (put bin) $ elems array ... but this was exceedlying slow. The array contains about 10 000 000 entries. Any suggestions?

Re: [Haskell] Writing large n-dim un-boxed array of Int32 quickly?

2005-10-31 Thread Rene de Visser
From: Ketil Malde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rene de Visser wrote: I want to write a multi-dimensional unboxed arrary of Int32 to a file. (And also read it back later). hGetArray/hPutArray? To do this I need to cast my 5 dimensional array to a 1 dimensional array? Does this work? i.e. how do I know

Re: [Haskell] Writing large n-dim un-boxed array of Int32 quickly?

2005-10-31 Thread Rene de Visser
From: Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Rene, Monday, October 31, 2005, 11:13:30 AM, you wrote: RdV I want to write a multi-dimensional unboxed arrary of Int32 to a file. (And RdV also read it back later). how about fileWriteBuf/fileReadBuf? Hello Bulat, How does this work? (is this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help wanted: Lazy multiway zipper with mismached intervals

2005-09-27 Thread Rene de Visser
Many thanks to all for the replies From: ChrisK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could the interval for element x of List xList overlap with more than one element of another list? It does not matter too much, but is something you did not clarify. In general, how may the intervals for all the lists

[Haskell-cafe] Help wanted: Lazy multiway zipper with mismached intervals

2005-09-26 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello, I need to zip together multiple lists. The lists are sorted by date, and each entry in the list represents data for a time interval. The time intervals between the lists may be missmatched from each other. This means that sometimes you don't need to move forward in list, while you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help wanted: Lazy multiway zipper with mismached intervals

2005-09-26 Thread Rene de Visser
From: ChrisK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rene de Visser wrote: Does a single list have only disjoint intervals? Yes. The lists are strictly increasing Doing this for two lists with a recursive function is easy. There being an output element whenever the intervals of the two input lists overlap. Yes, I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Annotating calculations

2005-06-15 Thread Rene de Visser
From: Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Rene de Visser wrote: I have a somewhat complicated calculation programmed in Haskell. This calculation is coded without using monads. I want to also produce a report describing the details of this calculation for each

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Annotating calculations

2005-06-15 Thread Rene de Visser
From: Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Rene de Visser wrote: You can put temporary values into a data structure. E.g. if you have an iteration don't write a recursion with a fixed abort criterion but write a function which maps the old value to the new one, then apply

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Tables in Haskell (data model /business app prototyping)

2005-05-11 Thread Rene de Visser
From: Bayley, Alistair [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rene de Visser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I would rather use Haskell also for the persistency, global constraint maintanence, etc... rather than using an external database. What do you mean by external database? If you just mean on another I would