Re: [Haskell-cafe] Int is broken [Was: Different answers on different machines]

2013-06-02 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Tommy Thorn tt1...@yahoo.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2013, at 12:52 , Henry Laxen nadine.and.he...@pobox.com wrote: Yes, that was it. The dell was a 32 bit system, and the desktop a 64. I changed everything from Int to Integer, and now both agree. Thanks for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How far compilers are allowed to go with optimizations?

2013-02-12 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Johan Holmquist holmi...@gmail.com wrote: By agressive optimisation I mean an optimisation that drastically reduces run-time performance of (some part of) the program. So I guess automatic vectorisation could fall into this term. Even something like running the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHCi + FFI + global C variables

2012-12-11 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Francisco Vieira de Souza vieira.u...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Simon! Is it not necessary to show the type of igraph_bool_t igraphhaskell_initialized like int igraph_bool_t igraphhaskell_initialized = 0? igraphhaskell_initialized is the name of the variable,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How can I avoid buffered reads?

2012-12-06 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On 29 Nov 2012 12:27 PM, Leon Smith leon.p.sm...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I took Bardur's suggestion and avoided all the complexities of GHC's IO stack and simply used System.Posix.IO and Foreign.This appears to work, but for better or worse, it is using blocking calls to the read system

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit

2012-08-27 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Aug 27, 2012 8:40 PM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.com wrote: The other question is how useful test suites in a released package are. Aren't they much more useful (and used more often) in source repositories? Having tests available in a released package allows one to verify that the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is (==) commutative?

2012-07-24 Thread Tristan Seligmann
Forgot to copy the list. Sorry for the duplicates :( On Jul 24, 2012 1:35 PM, Tristan Seligmann mithra...@mithrandi.net wrote: On Jul 24, 2012 12:32 PM, Twan van Laarhoven twa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-07-24 10:10, Christian Sternagel wrote: Dear all, with respect to formal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-31 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Steve Schafer st...@fenestra.com wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:38:49 -0700, you wrote:  * The difference between genders is smaller than the difference between individuals If only people would understand and accept the near-universality of this: The

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Linguistic hair-splitting

2010-01-31 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: I don't like this bias toward singling out Monad among all of the type classes, thereby perpetuating the misleading mystique surrounding Monad.  If you're going to call [3,5,8] a monadic value, then please give equal time to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com [2009-02-25 23:15:24 +0100]: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Peter Hercek pher...@gmail.com wrote: * An LGPL library will force commercial users to release their source code only to the users of their program (which already bought it) and only for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Paper draft: Denotational design with type class morphisms

2009-02-20 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Achim Schneider bars...@web.de [2009-02-20 15:17:14 +0100]: Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: DRAFT version ___ comments please Conal, please, PLEASE, never, EVER again use the word meaning if you actually mean denotation. It confuses the hell out of me, especially the (I guess

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help needed with apache config for hackage

2009-02-15 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk [2009-02-13 12:19:29 +]: Can we do that just for one user agent? I don't think we want to use non-standard stuff in general. Apparently Content-Disposition is not in the official HTTP spec, but IE is known to follow it. Well, it's mentioned in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Switching from Mercurial to Darcs

2009-02-07 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de [2009-02-05 23:34:53 +0100]: Peter Verswyvelen schrieb: 3) hg addrem this adds new files and removes deleted files from local repos. forgetting to add files is a common problem, and is really tricky since no record is made of these

Re: list choices (was [Haskell-cafe] ANN: filestore 0.1)

2009-01-25 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Jeremy Shaw jer...@n-heptane.com [2009-01-25 09:19:23 -0600]: I believe there are two solutions to your problem: 1. set the Reply-to header yourself to specify how you want people to reply to messages you post. If you only want them to do to the list, then set that. Some email clients

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Error in HTTP 4.004 + CouchDB?

2009-01-23 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Alex Ott alex...@gmail.com [2009-01-22 20:32:26 +0100]: PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/test1/Users_ott_tmp_1_tst HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: ... ... Host: 127.0.0.1:5984 ... Note that this is a valid HTTP request, according to my reading of RFC2616. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-20 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org [2009-01-15 10:15:36 -0600]: If you're learning Haskell, which communicates the idea more clearly: * Appendable or * Monoid I can immediately figure out what the first one means. I think that's deceptively misleading. Sure, list1 `mappend`

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-20 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com [2009-01-16 22:20:35 +]: A problem I see a lot of [and other people have mentioned this] is that a lot of documentation presents highly abstracted things, and gives *no hint* of why on earth these might possibly be useful for something. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com [2008-12-16 20:23:50 +]: I think the accusation is more that Haskell tries to be cryptic and arcane *on purpose*, just to confuse people. Sure, there are many concepts in Haskell which just aren't found anywhere else. But monads?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com [2008-12-17 09:10:55 +0100]: Oh please no, please don't let the logo be something that says Haskell, it's all about monads. I don't see anyone complaining about the python logo being something that says Python, it's all about snakes (Python is named after