Re: Thanks: (was Question about categories)

2003-09-23 Thread Florian Hars
Bill Halchin wrote: Here is the book plus many other llongo papers: http://www.di.ens.fr/users/llongo/download.html s/llongo/longo/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: garbage collection and Ptr/ForeignPtr/StablePtr

2003-09-23 Thread Alastair Reid
On Monday 22 September 2003 12:10 pm, Bayley, Alistair wrote: Should I expect that Ptr memory allocated with malloc is garbage collected when no longer used by the Haskell runtime? The FFI spec doesn't say so explicitly (that I could see); C programs use pointers in many ways: pointers to

Re: Generating setMember functions for record structures

2003-09-23 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Peter Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: setFoo:: State - [Int] - State setFoo st x= State { foo = x , bar = bar st } There is an easier way to do this, using the record update syntax rather than record construction syntax. e.g.

Database interface - would like advice on oracle library binding

2003-09-23 Thread Bayley, Alistair
(2nd attempt; mailman thinks I'm not a list member, but it still keeps sending me mail.) Still making slow progress on an Oracle database binding... now I'm trying to fit the API I have into some sort of abstract interface (like the one(s) discussed previously:

Database interface - would like advice on oracle library binding

2003-09-23 Thread Tom Pledger
Bayley, Alistair writes: : | Still making slow progress on an Oracle database binding... now I'm trying | to fit the API I have into some sort of abstract interface (like the one(s) | discussed previously: | http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2003-August/004957.html ). | | | 1.