[Haskell-cafe] Fast times as Inferable-but-not-Checkable High -- Link to Source

2009-10-07 Thread Joe Fredette
Sorry, I forgot to actually include the link to the source: http://lowlymath.net/Iso.hs /Joe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fast times at Inferable-but-not-Checkable High.

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
I don't have an answer to your question, but I asked a similar one a while ago:http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg53872.html http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg53872.htmlRyan Ingram gave an answer:

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] I read somewhere that for 90% of a wide class of computing problems, you only need 10% of the source code in Haskell, that you would in an imperative language.

2009-10-07 Thread Curt Sampson
On 2009-10-01 18:47 +0200 (Thu), Alberto G. Corona wrote: May be because consciousness is relatively new and thus, not optimized. Actually, no; our brains are very, very highly optimized. Only they're optimized for minimum power usage, not making the best decisions. For more information, see

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

2009-10-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Ross, Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:02:28 AM, you wrote: car = head unfortunately it doesn't work without -fno-monomorphism-restriction -- Best regards, Bulatmailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

2009-10-07 Thread Luke Palmer
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Ross, Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:02:28 AM, you wrote: car = head unfortunately it doesn't work without -fno-monomorphism-restriction It should be fine without the monomorphism restriction. Said

Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

2009-10-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Luke, Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 11:35:47 AM, you wrote: car = head unfortunately it doesn't work without -fno-monomorphism-restriction It should be fine without the monomorphism restriction. Said restriction only applies to functions with typeclass constraints, of which this has

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
--- BEGIN NOSTALGIA --- Well, I have to add to this, that when I coded my first games in assembler in the eighties, I did exactly the same thing: just recording the input of the joystick was enough to get full replays and make auto playing demos. But on the old computers, this was all so easy,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread David Virebayre
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com wrote: over every bit of the system (it was even easy to count exactly how many cycles a routine would take :-), so it was just a matter of starting the You sound like you used to code on the Commodore 64 :) David.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Ketil Malde
Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com writes: So yes, without using IO, Haskell forces you into this safe spot One could argue that IO should be broken down into a set of sub-monads encapsulating various subsets of the functionality - file system, network access, randomness, and so on. This

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Eugene Kirpichov
Or you can use an effect system (however that doesn't give you the opportunity of overriding IO functions, but I think that providing such an opportunity with the means you suggest (splitting IO into many sub-monads) is not going to be usable in the large scale) By the way, I am surprised that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 13:22 -0700, Michael P Mossey wrote: Duncan Coutts wrote: So you end up with pure functions like: shuffle :: RandomGen g = g - [x] - [x] Thanks for the help, Duncan. I'm confused on one point. Don't you always need the new state of the generator back? So

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Yep. Commodore 64, Amiga. I really loved those machined, especially the Amiga (mmm, maybe someone should port a Haskell compiler to the Amiga. ha, how nerdy can one get? ;-) On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, David Virebayre dav.vire+hask...@gmail.comdav.vire%2bhask...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: One could argue that IO should be broken down into a set of sub-monads encapsulating various subsets of the functionality - file system, network access, randomness, and so on.  This could extend the safe spot to cover much

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Network.Curl and posting XML data

2009-10-07 Thread mf-hcafe-15c311f0c
Hi Erik, I am not aware of any SSL implementation in haskell either (even though I think it should go not into HTTP but into Crypto (which is a neat piece of code, but needs a lot more work)). I can think of two quick solutions if you need your Haskell code to use an SSL link: run stunnel.org

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Peter, Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 2:04:49 PM, you wrote: afair, nhc was started there. it was a small compiler exactly because Amiga was a rather small computer (comapred to RISC stations) Yep. Commodore 64, Amiga. I really loved those machined, especially the Amiga (mmm, maybe someone

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Malcolm Wallace
afair, nhc was started there. it was a small compiler exactly because Amiga was a rather small computer (comapred to RISC stations) nhc12 (for Haskell 1.2) was first developed on an Acorn Archimedes with 2Mb of RAM, under RiscOS. Regards, Malcolm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Network.Curl and posting XML data

2009-10-07 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
mf-hcafe-15c311...@etc-network.de wrote: I am not aware of any SSL implementation in haskell either (even I really find this rather surprising. Ocaml has a very decent wrapper around Openssl that works rather well so it can't be that hard. though I think it should go not into HTTP but into

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Network.Curl and posting XML data

2009-10-07 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: mf-hcafe-15c311...@etc-network.de wrote: I am not aware of any SSL implementation in haskell either (even I really find this rather surprising. Ocaml has a very decent wrapper around Openssl that works rather

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Generalizing IO

2009-10-07 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
David Menendez wrote: Floptical Logic wrote: The code below is a little interactive program that uses some state. It uses StateT with IO to keep state. My question is: what is the best way to generalize this program to work with any IO-like monad/medium? For example, I would like the

Re: Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

2009-10-07 Thread michael rice
Actually I used it to fake the Pascal ord(x) function: ord = fromEnum Problem? Michael --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com Subject: Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function To: Luke Palmer

Re: Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

2009-10-07 Thread Deniz Dogan
2009/10/7 michael rice nowg...@yahoo.com Actually I used it to fake the Pascal ord(x) function: ord = fromEnum Problem? Michael If the monomorphism restriction applies, the compiler (assuming you're using GHC) will tell you about it. -- Deniz Dogan

Re[6]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

2009-10-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Deniz, Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:03:59 PM, you wrote: it depends. what i see with ghc 6.6.1: C:\!\Haskellrunghc test.hs test.hs:1:6: Ambiguous type variable `a' in the constraint: `Enum a' arising from use of `fromEnum' at test.hs:1:6-13 Possible cause: the monomorphism

Re: Re[6]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

2009-10-07 Thread Deniz Dogan
2009/10/7 Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com: Hello Deniz, Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:03:59 PM, you wrote: it depends. what i see with ghc 6.6.1: [snip]    Possible cause: the monomorphism restriction applied to the following:      ord :: a - Int (bound at test.hs:1:0)    

Re[8]: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

2009-10-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Deniz, Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:23:24 PM, you wrote:    Possible cause: the monomorphism restriction applied to the following:      ord :: a - Int (bound at test.hs:1:0)    Probable fix: give these definition(s) an explicit type signature                  or use

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread John A. De Goes
On Oct 7, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Ketil Malde wrote: Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com writes: So yes, without using IO, Haskell forces you into this safe spot One could argue that IO should be broken down into a set of sub- monads encapsulating various subsets of the functionality - file

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GPipe-1.0.0: A functional graphics API for programmable GPUs

2009-10-07 Thread Petr Pudlak
Hi Tobias, (I'm completely new to GPU programming, so my question may be completely stupid or unrelated. Please be patient :-).) Some time ago I needed to perform some large-scale computations (searching for first-order logic models) and a friend told me that GPUs can be used to perform many

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread John A. De Goes
It's a complex area not a lot of people are working in. Similar (actually worse than) dependent typing. Regards, John A. De Goes N-Brain, Inc. The Evolution of Collaboration http://www.n-brain.net|877-376-2724 x 101 On Oct 7, 2009, at 3:32 AM, Eugene Kirpichov wrote: Or you can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Conor McBride
On 7 Oct 2009, at 15:04, John A. De Goes wrote: On Oct 7, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Ketil Malde wrote: Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com writes: So yes, without using IO, Haskell forces you into this safe spot One could argue that IO should be broken down into a set of sub- monads

[Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi all, for people that have followed my posts on the DSL subject this question probably will seem strange, especially asking it now. I have read quite a lot lately on the subject, most of it written by the great old ones, (come on guys you know whom I mean :)). What I could gather from

Re: [Haskell-cafe] better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Excerpts from Ketil Malde's message of Wed Oct 07 05:13:19 -0400 2009: One could argue that IO should be broken down into a set of sub-monads encapsulating various subsets of the functionality - file system, network access, randomness, and so on. This could extend the safe spot to cover much

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Emil Axelsson
Hi, A DSL is just a domain-specific language. It doesn't imply any specific implementation technique. An *embedded* DSL is a library implemented in a more general language, which has been designed to give the feeling of a stand-alone language. Still nothing about implementation. A

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Joe Fredette
Let me add to this, as I've used the term DSL without (*gasp*) fully understanding it before. In addition to What is a DSL, I'd like to ask: How is a DSL different from an API? -- in the sense that an API is a set of, say, combinators to filter email + a monad in which to combine them. Or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi Emil, now that is an interpretation I could live with! Glad I posted the question. Günther Am 07.10.2009, 17:24 Uhr, schrieb Emil Axelsson e...@chalmers.se: Hi, A DSL is just a domain-specific language. It doesn't imply any specific implementation technique. An *embedded* DSL is a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Joe Fredette
So, if I understand this: Parsec is a DSL, I'm going to venture it's a Deep embedding -- I don't understand the internals, but if I were to build something like Parsec, I would probably build up a Parser datastructure and then apply optimizations to it, then run it with another function.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi Joe Am 07.10.2009, 17:26 Uhr, schrieb Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com: Let me add to this, as I've used the term DSL without (*gasp*) fully understanding it before. Welcome to the club then! :) In addition to What is a DSL, I'd like to ask: How is a DSL different from an API? -- in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread minh thu
Hi, Some random observation: A (E)DSL and an API fall on the same plane when they just expose functionality of a library. The difference between EDSL and a DSL is really just the E which means embedded into a host language so the embedded language can be built on top of some existing machinery,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread Ben Franksen
Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Montag 05 Oktober 2009 16:29:02 schrieb Job Vranish: In what way is it not a number? If there's a natural[1] implementation of fromInteger, good. If there isn't, *don't provide one*. fromInteger _ = error Not sensible is better than doing something strange. [1]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Atkey
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 11:32 -0400, Joe Fredette wrote: So, if I understand this: Parsec is a DSL, I'm going to venture it's a Deep embedding -- I don't understand the internals, but if I were to build something like Parsec, I would probably build up a Parser datastructure and then

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Dan Piponi
2009/10/7 Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com: Let me add to this, as I've used the term DSL without (*gasp*) fully understanding it before. In addition to What is a DSL, I'd like to ask: How is a DSL different from an API? I don't think there is a sharp divide here. A nice example was given by

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Network.Curl and posting XML data

2009-10-07 Thread mf-hcafe-15c311f0c
I stand corrected. The answer was 'cabal install HsOpenSSL'. On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:37:38PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org From: Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:37:38 +1100 Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Network.Curl and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Calling Haskell from C, Linking with gcc?

2009-10-07 Thread John Velman
This is probably an Xcode problem now, rather than a strictly Haskell problem. There are a bunch of libgmp.a and libgmp.dylib files in existence on this computer, some in /usr/local/lib, or linked from there. I've got my errors down to references in libgmp, whether or not I try to include

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi Don, I've informally argued that a true DSL -- separate from a good API -- should have semantic characteristics of a language: binding forms, control structures, abstraction, composition. Some have type systems. That is one requirement that confuses me, abstraction. I thought of DSLs as

[Haskell-cafe] Re: better way to do this?

2009-10-07 Thread Ben Franksen
Eugene Kirpichov wrote: Or you can use an effect system (however that doesn't give you the opportunity of overriding IO functions, but I think that providing such an opportunity with the means you suggest (splitting IO into many sub-monads) is not going to be usable in the large scale) By

[Haskell-cafe] Re: What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Ben Franksen
minh thu wrote: 2009/10/7 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: I've informally argued that a true DSL -- separate from a good API -- should have semantic characteristics of a language: binding forms, control structures, abstraction, composition. Some have type systems. That is one

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread John Van Enk
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Ben Franksen But isn't one of the advantages of an _E_DSL that we can use the host language (Haskell) as a meta or macro language for the DSL? Substantially so. I've used brief examples where the EDSL syntax is basically the data declaration (perhaps with some

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread minh thu
2009/10/7 Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de: minh thu wrote: 2009/10/7 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: I've informally argued that a true DSL -- separate from a good API -- should have semantic characteristics of a language: binding forms, control structures, abstraction, composition.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Atkey
What is a DSL? How about this as a formal-ish definition, for at least a pretty big class of DSLs: A DSL is an algebraic theory in the sense of universal algebra. I.e. it is an API of a specific form, which consists of: a) a collection of abstract types, the carriers. Need not all be of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finally tagless - stuck with implementation of lam

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Atkey
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 19:22 -0400, David Menendez wrote: The two obvious options are call-by-name and call-by-value. I wonder how easily one can provide both, like in Algol. Fairly easy, you can either do a language that has an explicit monad (a bit like Haskell with only the IO monad), or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Finally tagless - stuck with implementation of?lam

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Atkey
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 22:06 -0400, Chung-chieh Shan wrote: Robert Atkey bob.at...@ed.ac.uk wrote in article 1254778973.3675.42.ca...@bismuth in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe: To implement the translation of embedded language types to Haskell types in Haskell we use type families. This

[Haskell-cafe] RE: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GPipe-1.0.0: A functional graphics API for programmable GPUs

2009-10-07 Thread Tobias Bexelius
Hi Petr, Your question is completely justified! Yes, I beleive GPipe is a good foundation for such GPGPU-computations (general purpose GPU-programming), giving you easy access to data parallelism. A way of doing this is to start with one or more equally sized textures that is your input (1

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finally tagless - stuck with implementation of lam

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Atkey
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 22:42 +0100, Robert Atkey wrote: There is a difference in the syntax between CBN and CBV that is not always obvious from the usual paper presentations. There is a split between pieces of syntax that are values and those that are computations. Values do not have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Emil Axelsson
Ben Franksen skrev: minh thu wrote: 2009/10/7 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: I've informally argued that a true DSL -- separate from a good API -- should have semantic characteristics of a language: binding forms, control structures, abstraction, composition. Some have type systems.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread David Menendez
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de wrote: More generally, any ring with multiplicative unit (let's call it 'one') will do. Isn't that every ring? As I understand it, the multiplication in a ring is required to form a monoid. -- Dave Menendez

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread Joe Fredette
A ring is an abelian group in addition, with the added operation (*) being distributive over addition, and 0 annihilating under multiplication. (*) is also associative. Rings don't necessarily need _multiplicative_ id, only _additive_ id. Sometimes Rings w/o ID is called a Rng (a bit of a

[Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell - List Comprehension Question

2009-10-07 Thread Steven1990
Hi, I'm currently learning Haskell, and I've been trying to work out a function for the following problem for a couple of days now. I want to use a list comprehension method to change the first letter of a string to upper case, and the rest of the string to lower case. Eg: heLLo - Hello As

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell - List Comprehension Question

2009-10-07 Thread Ross Mellgren
I don't think a list comprehension is the easiest way to do it, how about upperCase :: String - String upperCase [] = [] upperCase (x:xs) = toUpper x : map toLower xs -Ross On Oct 7, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Steven1990 wrote: Hi, I'm currently learning Haskell, and I've been trying to work out a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell - List Comprehension Question

2009-10-07 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
Hint: Move the boundary case outside the comprehension, and then use the comprehension to handle the normal case. Also, FYI, a comprehension feeds each value of the list xs into x, and then evaluates the expression to the left of the pipe with that single value of x. Cheers, Greg On

[Haskell-cafe] random question

2009-10-07 Thread Michael Mossey
My thread about randomness got hijacked so I need to restate my remaining question here. Is it acceptable to write pure routines that use but do not return generators, and then call several of them from an IO monad with a generator obtained by several calls to newStdGen? shuffle :: RandomGen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] random question

2009-10-07 Thread Luke Palmer
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Michael Mossey m...@alumni.caltech.edu wrote: My thread about randomness got hijacked so I need to restate my remaining question here. Is it acceptable to write pure routines that use but do not return generators, and then call several of them from an IO monad

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell - List Comprehension Question

2009-10-07 Thread minh thu
2009/10/7 Steven1990 stevenyoung1...@msn.com: Hi, I'm currently learning Haskell, and I've been trying to work out a function for the following problem for a couple of days now. I want to use a list comprehension method to change the first letter of a string to upper case, and the rest of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] random question

2009-10-07 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Michael Mossey m...@alumni.caltech.eduwrote: My thread about randomness got hijacked so I need to restate my remaining question here. Is it acceptable to write pure routines that use but do not return generators, and then call several of them from an IO monad

Re: [Haskell-cafe] random question

2009-10-07 Thread Michael Mossey
Luke Palmer wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Michael Mossey m...@alumni.caltech.edu wrote: My thread about randomness got hijacked so I need to restate my remaining question here. Is it acceptable to write pure routines that use but do not return generators, and then call several of

[solved] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Calling Haskell from C, Linking with gcc?

2009-10-07 Thread John Velman
For anyone following this: The XCode ld script is complex, and has mac specific defaults early in the search path specification, and I probably don't want to change these. A library in a default path is the wrong libgmp.[dylib | a]. My solution: do a ln -s libgmp.a lib-h-gmp.a in the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009 22:44:19 schrieb Joe Fredette: A ring is an abelian group in addition, with the added operation (*) being distributive over addition, and 0 annihilating under multiplication. (*) is also associative. Rings don't necessarily need _multiplicative_ id, only _additive_

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread Joe Fredette
I was just quoting from Hungerford's Undergraduate text, but yes, the default ring is in {Rng, Ring}, I haven't heard semirings used in the sense of a Rng. I generally find semirings defined as a ring structure without additive inverse and with 0-annihilation (which one has to assume in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] random question

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009 23:28:59 schrieb Michael Mossey: Luke Palmer wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Michael Mossey m...@alumni.caltech.edu wrote: My thread about randomness got hijacked so I need to restate my remaining question here. Is it acceptable to write pure routines

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell - List Comprehension Question

2009-10-07 Thread michael rice
Try just writing a function that will change ALL the characters to uppercase (or lower case) using list comprehension and then see if you can isolate how to factor out the special case of the first character. Michael --- On Wed, 10/7/09, minh thu not...@gmail.com wrote: From: minh thu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009 23:51:54 schrieb Joe Fredette: I was just quoting from Hungerford's Undergraduate text, but yes, the default ring is in {Rng, Ring}, I haven't heard semirings used in the sense of a Rng. It's been looong ago, I seem to have misremembered :? But there used to be a

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: htzaar-0.0.1

2009-10-07 Thread Tom Hawkins
HTZAAR is a Haskell implementation of TZAAR, a great little two-player abstract strategy game designed by Kris Burm. TZAAR won Games Magazine's Game-of-the-Year in 2008. TZAAR has some interesting game dynamics. At each turn a player must decide whether to attack or strengthen his own pieces.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] dsl and gui toolkit

2009-10-07 Thread Alp Mestan
Note that the Qt library supports CSS, and it's pretty fun and easy to use. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:05 AM, John A. De Goes j...@n-brain.net wrote: Then change to early generation language. Point being CSS has plenty of pioneering flaws. Regards, John A. De Goes N-Brain, Inc. The

[Haskell-cafe] Libraries for Commercial Users

2009-10-07 Thread Curt Sampson
On 2009-10-02 09:03 -0600 (Fri), John A. De Goes wrote: [Haskell] is missing many key libraries that would be of great commercial value. Just out of curiousity, can you give me some examples of what you feel these are? cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@starling-software.com+81 90 7737

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Market Place for Haskell development teams?

2009-10-07 Thread Curt Sampson
On 2009-10-02 09:04 -0600 (Fri), John A. De Goes wrote: I'm not saying Haskell is unstable. I'm saying that the attitude expressed in the following quote is at odds with the needs of business: And as far as something like dealing with a changing language and libraries, the mainstream

Re: [Haskell-cafe] random question

2009-10-07 Thread Ryan Ingram
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Michael Mossey m...@alumni.caltech.eduwrote: I don't quite follow your response. I want a program that initializes the generator from the global generator because I want different behavior every time I run it. So it will need IO. That's what I was trying to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-07 Thread Creighton Hogg
2009/10/7 Robert Atkey bob.at...@ed.ac.uk: What is a DSL? How about this as a formal-ish definition, for at least a pretty big class of DSLs: A DSL is an algebraic theory in the sense of universal algebra. I.e. it is an API of a specific form, which consists of:  a) a collection of

[Haskell-cafe] Test.QuickCheck: generate

2009-10-07 Thread Michael Mossey
In Test.QuickCheck, the type of 'generate' is generate :: Int - StdGen - Gen a - a I can't find docs that explain what the Int does. Some docs are here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/QuickCheck/Test-QuickCheck.html ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Libraries for Commercial Users

2009-10-07 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Curt Sampson wrote: On 2009-10-02 09:03 -0600 (Fri), John A. De Goes wrote: [Haskell] is missing many key libraries that would be of great commercial value. Just out of curiousity, can you give me some examples of what you feel these are? A version of Network.HTTP that accepts HTTPS

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread Jason McCarty
Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009 23:51:54 schrieb Joe Fredette: I generally find semirings defined as a ring structure without additive inverse and with 0-annihilation (which one has to assume in the case of SRs, I included it in my previous definition because I wasn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Libraries for Commercial Users

2009-10-07 Thread Don Stewart
mle+hs: Curt Sampson wrote: On 2009-10-02 09:03 -0600 (Fri), John A. De Goes wrote: [Haskell] is missing many key libraries that would be of great commercial value. Just out of curiousity, can you give me some examples of what you feel these are? A version of Network.HTTP

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread Felipe Lessa
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:44:27PM -0400, Jason McCarty wrote: Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009 23:51:54 schrieb Joe Fredette: I generally find semirings defined as a ring structure without additive inverse and with 0-annihilation (which one has to assume in the case

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Num instances for 2-dimensional types

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009 03:05:13 schrieb Felipe Lessa: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:44:27PM -0400, Jason McCarty wrote: Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009 23:51:54 schrieb Joe Fredette: I generally find semirings defined as a ring structure without additive inverse

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Libraries for Commercial Users

2009-10-07 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Don Stewart wrote: A version of Network.HTTP that accepts HTTPS URLs and does the right thing instead of attempting to do a HTTP connection instead. Yeah, we use the curl library for all our HTTPS stuff. Well there is a big difference between Network.Curl and Network.HTTP. HTTP is really

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: vty-ui 0.2

2009-10-07 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
I'm happy to announce the release of vty-ui 0.2. Get it from Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vty-ui Or get the source with darcs: http://repos.codevine.org/vty-ui This version of vty-ui is everything you hoped it would be: fewer bugs, more widget types, cleaner code, better

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Test.QuickCheck: generate

2009-10-07 Thread David Menendez
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Michael Mossey m...@alumni.caltech.edu wrote: In Test.QuickCheck, the type of 'generate' is generate :: Int - StdGen - Gen a - a I can't find docs that explain what the Int does. Some docs are here:

[Haskell-cafe] #include path

2009-10-07 Thread Sean McLaughlin
Hi, I'm trying to compile some code using Cabal. One of the files has a CPP directive #include undefined.h The file undefined.h is in the same directory as the file with the directive. If I use the full path name, cabal can compile it. However, if I use the relative path, it complains about