Re: Unicode support

2001-10-09 Thread Ketil Malde
[Posted to haskell-cafe, since it's getting quite off topic] Kent Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for a long time. 16 bit unicode should be gotten rid of, being the worst of both worlds, non backwards compatable with ascii, endianness issues and no constant length encoding utf8

Re: Unicode support

2001-10-09 Thread Kent Karlsson
- Original Message - From: Ketil Malde [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... for a long time. 16 bit unicode should be gotten rid of, being the worst of both worlds, non backwards compatable with ascii, endianness issues and no constant length encoding utf8 externally and utf32 when worknig

Re: Unicode support

2001-10-09 Thread Ketil Malde
Kent Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You have endianness issues, and you need to explicitly type text files or insert BOMs. You have to distinguish between the encoding form (what you use internally) and encoding scheme (externally). Good point, of course. Most of the arguments apply

Re: Reasons behind the one instance per type limitation

2001-10-09 Thread Diego Dainese
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:03:15 -0700 Ashley Yakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2001-10-08 09:27, Diego Dainese wrote: what are the reasons behind the rule stating that a type must not be declared as an instance of a particular class, more than once in the program? It's so that the members

Re: Reasons behind the one instance per type limitation

2001-10-09 Thread Iavor S. Diatchki
hello, Why aren't instance declarations handled by the module system like every other symbol, so that a module can decide when to import an instance declaration and when to export it? Are there technical difficulties with this approach? i beleive the reason is that instances don't have

= vs -

2001-10-09 Thread Mark Carroll
What is the rationale for when Haskell demands a = and when it demands a -? Ideas that occur to me are: (a) The distinction helps the parser a lot (b) There's a semantic difference that the language's grammar is trying to express that isn't obvious to me -- Mark

RE: Unicode support

2001-10-09 Thread Karlsson Kent - keka
Title: RE: Unicode support -Original Message- From: Ketil Malde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... But as I said: they will not go away now, they are too firmly established. Yep. But it appears that the right choice for external encoding scheme would be UTF-8. You're free to

SuSE 7.3

2001-10-09 Thread Jorge Adriano
Está para sair a 22 de Outubro... até eu estou a ficar surpreendido com a evolução destes tipos. Qd penso do 1o Linux que instalei (à cerca de dois anos? - andava eu no 4o ano) sinto-me como aquelas velhas que dizem eu ainda sou do tempo..., err... em que tinha de andar a alterar XF86Config à

Opsss... Sorry (SuSE 7.3)

2001-10-09 Thread Jorge Adriano
I just accidently sent a mail written in portuguese about SuSE 7.3. I'm really sorry, it will not happen again. My apologies J.A. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: Reasons behind the one instance per type limitation

2001-10-09 Thread Brian Boutel
Iavor S. Diatchki wrote: hello, Why aren't instance declarations handled by the module system like every other symbol, so that a module can decide when to import an instance declaration and when to export it? Are there technical difficulties with this approach? i beleive the

Re: = vs -

2001-10-09 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2001-10-09 11:55, Mark Carroll wrote: What is the rationale for when Haskell demands a = and when it demands a -? What? Example please... -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: = vs -

2001-10-09 Thread Ketil Malde
Mark Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Ashley Yakeley wrote: At 2001-10-09 11:55, Mark Carroll wrote: What is the rationale for when Haskell demands a = and when it demands a -? Okay, I can't give you anything formal, but here's my intuitive understanding of things