Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

2010-04-27 Thread Christopher Lane Hinson
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: I despair that a better Numeric hierarchy will never make it into Haskell. I thought the main reason for that was that nobody could agree on a better hierarchy that was actually usable. (Nobody wants to chain 10 typeclasses together to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

2010-04-27 Thread Henning Thielemann
Christopher Lane Hinson schrieb: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: I despair that a better Numeric hierarchy will never make it into Haskell. I thought the main reason for that was that nobody could agree on a better hierarchy that was actually usable. (Nobody wants

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

2010-04-27 Thread Christopher Lane Hinson
I'm so sorry. I mean to say that there is no part of the standard prelude that is the numeric part. I was aware of the numeric-prelude package, which is good work and deserves recognition. Friendly, --Lane On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Henning Thielemann wrote: Christopher Lane Hinson schrieb:

[Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

2010-04-26 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2010-04-24, John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org wrote: It is a funny thing, because our fundamental libraries *have* had time to settle down, in a sense. In another sense, I must say that the innovations we have seen recently have been sorely needed and are unquestionably a good thing.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

2010-04-26 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 27 April 2010 14:55, Aaron Denney wno...@ofb.net wrote: I despair that a better Numeric hierarchy will never make it into Haskell. I think the reason it hasn't is because I for one still haven't seen a fully implemented such hierarchy that's worth using. Then again, most of my numerical

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

2010-04-26 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 27, 2010, at 00:55 , Aaron Denney wrote: I despair that a better Numeric hierarchy will never make it into Haskell. I thought the main reason for that was that nobody could agree on a better hierarchy that was actually usable. (Nobody wants to chain 10 typeclasses together to get

[Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

2010-04-24 Thread Jon Fairbairn
John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org writes: It is somewhat of a surprise to me that I'm making this post, given that there was a day when I thought Haskell was moving too slow ;-) My problem here is that it has become rather difficult to write software in Haskell that will still work with