[Haskell-cafe] Announce: hpaste

2007-01-23 Thread Eric Mertens
Hello, I am pleased to announce hpaste, the Haskell Paste-bin. Over the course of this week many of the active #haskell members and I have been developing this application to provide #haskell with a reliable paste bot whose features are tuned to the needs of the channel. Everyone is invited to

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Hyperlinking source code formatter?

2007-01-23 Thread Simon Marlow
Conal Elliott wrote: I'd like to turn source code (mine and others') into a fully hyperlinked form, in which every name reference links to the name's definition. Syntax-coloring would be great also. I see Programmatica. Is it in use, supported, and reasonably easy to install and use? Are

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: IO in lists

2007-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Hi Dan, You have written a great explanation of how ListT works by writing out its definitions in an interesting way! Dan Piponi wrote: A slightly different approach that doesn't use anything unsafe: A list of type [Char] is essentially a solution to the equation X = Maybe (Char,X) Yes. In

Re: [Haskell-cafe] strange behavior in Text.Regex.Posix

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
John MacFarlane wrote: Can anyone help me understand this odd behavior in Text.Regex.Posix (GHC 6.6)? Prelude Text.Regex.Posix Text.Regex subRegex (mkRegex \\^) he\350llo @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why does /\^/ match \350 here? Generally Text.Regex.Posix seems to work fine with unicode

[Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Gale
troll Prelude let f .! g = ((.) $! f) $! g Prelude let f = undefined :: Int - IO Int Prelude f `seq` 42 *** Exception: Prelude.undefined Prelude ((= f) . return) `seq` 42 42 Prelude ((= f) .! return) `seq` 42 42 /troll Regards, Yitz ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:35 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: troll Prelude let f .! g = ((.) $! f) $! g Prelude let f = undefined :: Int - IO Int Prelude f `seq` 42 *** Exception: Prelude.undefined Prelude ((= f) . return) `seq` 42 42 Prelude ((= f) .! return) `seq` 42 42 /troll Perhaps

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GHC concurrency runtime breaks every 497 (and a bit) days

2007-01-23 Thread Neil Davies
I've prototyped a fix for this issue which will now only wrap every 585,000 years or so. It also removes the 1/50th of a second timer resolution for the runtime. This means that the additional 20ms (or thereabouts) of delay in the wakeup has gone. This means that GHC is now on a par with any

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I wrote: Prelude let f .! g = ((.) $! f) $! g Prelude let f = undefined :: Int - IO Int Prelude f `seq` 42 *** Exception: Prelude.undefined Prelude ((= f) . return) `seq` 42 42 Prelude ((= f) .! return) `seq` 42 42 Duncan Coutts wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't see what's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Could you explain why would a class Seq not be sufficient? If there were a class Seq, I'd not want functions to be in that class. -- Lennart On Jan 23, 2007, at 08:57 , Yitzchak Gale wrote: I wrote: Prelude let f .! g = ((.) $! f) $! g Prelude let f = undefined :: Int - IO Int

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: IO in lists

2007-01-23 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:59:58 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: Hi Dan, You have written a great explanation of how ListT works by writing out its definitions in an interesting way! I assume you aren't talking about the standard ListT, the one that forces unnecessary strictness, right? But rather

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Hi, Lennart Augustsson wrote: Could you explain why would a class Seq not be sufficient? If there were a class Seq, I'd not want functions to be in that class. Oh, I see. Well that is pretty much the same as ignoring seq altogether. I am hoping to get a better answer than that - where we can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: IO in lists

2007-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Magnus Therning wrote: I assume you aren't talking about the standard ListT, the one that forces unnecessary strictness, right? But rather how ListT ought to be implemented. Ha! There it is again! :) Regards, Yitz ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Brian Hulley
Yitzchak Gale wrote: I wrote: Prelude let f .! g = ((.) $! f) $! g Prelude let f = undefined :: Int - IO Int Prelude f `seq` 42 *** Exception: Prelude.undefined Prelude ((= f) . return) `seq` 42 42 Prelude ((= f) .! return) `seq` 42 42 Duncan Coutts wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Brian Hulley
Brian Hulley wrote: Yitzchak Gale wrote: I wrote: Prelude let f = undefined :: Int - IO Int Prelude f `seq` 42 *** Exception: Prelude.undefined Prelude ((= f) . return) `seq` 42 42 The monad laws say that (= f) . return must be identical to f. I thought it was: return x = f = f x so

[Haskell-cafe] Monomorphism restriction

2007-01-23 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hello, I talked for a while with bd_ about this on #haskell, and I think maybe I'm just being silly. But I can't get why: lambda = \x - length (show x) or dot = length . show is different from pre x = length $ show x I read about monomorphism restriction on the haskell 98 report, but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: IO in lists

2007-01-23 Thread Dan Piponi
On 1/23/07, Yitzchak Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have written a great explanation of how ListT works by writing out its definitions in an interesting way! I put quite a bit of time into understanding why the old ListT isn't a monad [1]. But I thought I didn't yet understand the new one.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: IO in lists

2007-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I wrote: You have written a great explanation of how ListT works by writing out its definitions in an interesting way! Dan Piponi wrote: I put quite a bit of time into understanding why the old ListT isn't a monad [1]. But I thought I didn't yet understand the new one. Now I see that I did, I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Brian Hulley
Brian Hulley wrote: Brian Hulley wrote: Yitzchak Gale wrote: I wrote: Prelude let f = undefined :: Int - IO Int Prelude f `seq` 42 *** Exception: Prelude.undefined Prelude ((= f) . return) `seq` 42 42 The monad laws say that (= f) . return must be identical to f. I thought it was:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: IO in lists

2007-01-23 Thread Dan Piponi
Yitzchak, Hmm, I thought it was the old one... No, definitely the new one. The old one is: newtype ListT m a = ListT { runListT :: m [a] } which treats the entire list as one uninterleavable lump. The new one is: data MList' m a = MNil | a `MCons` MList m a type MList m a = m (MList' m

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
Can someone explain to me, given that (a) I'm not particularly expert at maths, (b) I'm not particularly expert at Haskell, and (c) I'm a bit fuzzybrained of late: Given that _|_ represents in some sense any computation not representable in and/or not consistent with Haskell, why/how is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Dockins
On Jan 23, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: Can someone explain to me, given that (a) I'm not particularly expert at maths, (b) I'm not particularly expert at Haskell, and (c) I'm a bit fuzzybrained of late: Given that _|_ represents in some sense any computation not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Seth Gordon
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: Can someone explain to me, given that (a) I'm not particularly expert at maths, (b) I'm not particularly expert at Haskell, and (c) I'm a bit fuzzybrained of late: Me too... Given that _|_ represents in some sense any computation not representable in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Jan 23, 2007, at 14:48 , Robert Dockins wrote: Its possible, however, that I don't understand your question. The formula (p^~p)-q (AKA, proof by contradiction) is valid most classical and constructive logics that I know of, so I'm not quite sure what you're getting at. I'm not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Jan 23, 2007, at 14:58 , Seth Gordon wrote: The only catch I see to that POV is that the way `seq` is defined, undefined `seq` 42 *must* return an error. If this were analogous to (p^~p)-q, then undefined `seq` 42 would be allowed to return any value whatsoever. That's not quite what

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi That's not quite what I was trying to say. (p^~p)-q is equivalent to _|_ in the sense that once you derive/compute (respectively) it, the world in which it exists breaks. I think thats a bit overly harsh view of _|_ to take. The world does not break once you compute _|_ - a _|_ value

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Jan 23, 2007, at 15:34 , Neil Mitchell wrote: prove/compute anything you couldn't before. While removing _|_ from the language does make some things nicer to reason about, there aren't many corners where _|_ really gets in the way that much - seq being one of those few corners. But that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi prove/compute anything you couldn't before. While removing _|_ from the language does make some things nicer to reason about, there aren't many corners where _|_ really gets in the way that much - seq being one of those few corners. But that is exactly the problem: `seq` forces _|_ to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Greg Buchholz
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: That's not quite what I was trying to say. (p^~p)-q is equivalent to _|_ in the sense that once you derive/compute (respectively) it, the world in which it exists breaks. (I don't think formal logic can have a Haskell-like _|_, but deriving (p^~p)-q is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell

2007-01-23 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
I wonder if that's another reason OCaml is used in a(t least one) hedge fund -- why Jane St. preferred OCaml to Haskell, I wonder? Was it the state of affairs then that OCaml was more efficient (? -- WAGuess), and would they prefer Haskell now? I'm trying to make sense out of OCaml objects out

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

2007-01-23 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Jan 23, 2007, at 15:50 , Neil Mitchell wrote: prove/compute anything you couldn't before. While removing _|_ from the language does make some things nicer to reason about, there aren't many corners where _|_ really gets in the way that much - seq being one of those few corners. But

[Haskell-cafe] Financial Engineering with Haskell

2007-01-23 Thread Joel Reymont
Alexy, This is a subject near and dear to my heart and I also dabble in Lisp and Erlang. Google for Composing Financial Contracts, you will surely like the paper. This is the paper that got me started with Haskell. I'm sure you could do financial data mining in either Lisp, Haskell or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Hi Brian, Brian Hulley wrote: I thought it was: return x = f = f x ...I think the problem you're encountering is just that the above law doesn't imply: (= f) . return = f Sorry, I was not clear. For the purposes of this thread, I am using the word monad in the category-theoretic

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell

2007-01-23 Thread Tim Docker
Alexy Khabrov wrote: I wonder if that's another reason OCaml is used in a(t least one) hedge fund -- why Jane St. preferred OCaml to Haskell, I wonder? Was it the state of affairs then that OCaml was more efficient (? -- WAGuess), and would they prefer Haskell now? Ocaml definitely

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell

2007-01-23 Thread Joel Reymont
On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Tim Docker wrote: I'm not aware of any ongoing haskell work in finance, I'm gearing up to do something but don't have anything to show yet. I'd be happy to learn of any more, however. I don't think there's any reasons right now why one ought to favour ocaml

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell

2007-01-23 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Tim Docker wrote: I'm not aware of any ongoing haskell work in finance, other that some private work being done by Alain Cremieux, reported in the HCAR. Lennart Augustsson works for Credit Suisse, using a Haskell DSEL to generate financial models for execution by clusters running Excel.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell

2007-01-23 Thread John Meacham
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:37:21PM -0500, Bryan Donlan wrote: Or you can get the best of both worlds by using Data.ByteString.Lazy :) Even with laziness, all the indirections that String causes hurts performance. actually, strictness analysis is really good at unboxing things like this, so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: Package rdtsc for reading IA-32 time stamp counters

2007-01-23 Thread John Meacham
I would think this would be how the haskell 98 standard library CPUTime is implemented, is it not? http://haskell.org/onlinereport/cputime.html John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: Package rdtsc for reading IA-32 time stamp counters

2007-01-23 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
John Meacham wrote: I would think this would be how the haskell 98 standard library CPUTime is implemented, is it not? No. System.CPUTime gives you an approximate idea of the amount of CPU time your process, and all its threads, have used. The rdtsc instruction gives you a snapshot of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs. OCaml (was: Strings in Haskell)

2007-01-23 Thread Martin Jambon
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: I wonder if that's another reason OCaml is used in a(t least one) hedge fund -- why Jane St. preferred OCaml to Haskell, I wonder? Was it the state of affairs then that OCaml was more efficient (? -- WAGuess), and would they prefer Haskell now? I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell

2007-01-23 Thread jeff p
Hello, On 1/23/07, Bryan O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Docker wrote: I'm not aware of any ongoing haskell work in finance, other that some private work being done by Alain Cremieux, reported in the HCAR. Lennart Augustsson works for Credit Suisse, using a Haskell DSEL to generate

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad

2007-01-23 Thread Lennart Augustsson
I don't think disallowing seq for functions makes them any more second class than not allow == for functions. I'm willing to sacrifice seq on functions to get parametricity back. There is a good reason seq cannot be defined for functions in the pure lambda calculus... It doesn't belong there.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell

2007-01-23 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
On 1/23/07, Bryan O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: generate financial models for execution by clusters running Excel. There used to be, on Slashdot, a saying: Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! :) Cheers, Alexy ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] PDF library?

2007-01-23 Thread Clifford Beshers
I don't suppose anyone has any Haskell code that understands the PDF format, do they? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: Package rdtsc for reading IA-32 time stamp counters

2007-01-23 Thread John Meacham
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:10:10PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: John Meacham wrote: I would think this would be how the haskell 98 standard library CPUTime is implemented, is it not? No. System.CPUTime gives you an approximate idea of the amount of CPU time your process, and all its

[Haskell-cafe] small step evaluation as an unfold?

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Downey
(overall context - working through TaPL on my own, reimplemnting typecheckers in haskell) the type checkers all follow the same pattern, in ocaml they throw an exception when the small step fails, which may mean taking another branch in the eval, but that that sub expression has hit bottom. it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PDF library?

2007-01-23 Thread Aaron Tomb
On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Clifford Beshers wrote: I don't suppose anyone has any Haskell code that understands the PDF format, do they? I know of one, though I'm not sure how complete it is: http://www.alpheccar.org/en/soft/hpdf I know it can create PDF files. I'm not sure if it can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] small step evaluation as an unfold?

2007-01-23 Thread John Meacham
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:25:27PM -0500, Steve Downey wrote: (overall context - working through TaPL on my own, reimplemnting typecheckers in haskell) the type checkers all follow the same pattern, in ocaml they throw an exception when the small step fails, which may mean taking another

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GADTs are expressive

2007-01-23 Thread John Meacham
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:48:09PM +0100, Roberto Zunino wrote: Robin Green wrote: Well, not really - or not the proof you thought you were getting. As I am constantly at pains to point out, in a language with the possibility of well-typed, non-terminating terms, like Haskell, what you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PDF library?

2007-01-23 Thread Johan Tibell
I know Peter Moberg at Chalmers was working on some PDF stuff. You might want to try to get hold of him and ask. Cheers, Johan On 1/24/07, Clifford Beshers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't suppose anyone has any Haskell code that understands the PDF format, do they?

[Haskell-cafe] embedding haskell into html

2007-01-23 Thread Forest Liu
I am new to haskell, and now working on embedding haskell into html. Thus we will write webapp using haskell as server-side language like php. Here I explain my plan and ask some questions, looking for experienced ones to discuss with. It is not proper embedding lines of haskell code into html

[Haskell-cafe] catch the stdout when execute a shell cmd

2007-01-23 Thread Forest Liu
I use system in System.Cmd to execute a shell cmd, then how can I catch its stdout? -- Sincerely, Forest Liu(刘云�S) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] catch the stdout when execute a shell cmd

2007-01-23 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
oxware: I use system in System.Cmd to execute a shell cmd, then how can I catch its stdout? Use System.Process, http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-Process.html And example, call the 'date' program: (inh,outh,errh,pid) - runInteractiveProcess date [+%d:%m:%y]