Re: [commit: ghc] master: Update to primitive-0.5.2.1 (47d725f)

2014-02-19 Thread Karel Gardas
Herbert, thanks for merging this, but this is somehow not working for me. I see this patch in ghc repo after ./sync-all pull, but my libraries/primitive is still on 5ae8fbb8131ccc934cadd29cc1d17298cfdaef4b commit from November 2013 Is there anything special I need to do in order to update g

32-bit Linux perf failures

2014-02-19 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
Greetings, I just ran validate with current HEAD (2b34947b60069e51abfcada9c45a6d7b590f5a2b) and I have quite a few perf failures. Perhaps these need tweaking? I know that 32-bit numbers were neglected in the past. The Haddock numbers have been complaining for a few weeks now but I think everything

Re: workaround to get both domain-specific errors and also multi-modal type inference?

2014-02-19 Thread Richard Eisenberg
Though I favor the approach Adam wrote about (he and I discussed it before his post), I think these are very valid concerns, and would have to be taken into account in the design of any further work in this area. One observation I would make now is that none of this proposal, as far as I can te

Re: workaround to get both domain-specific errors and also multi-modal type inference?

2014-02-19 Thread Jonathan Paugh
On 02/07/2014 03:05 PM, Adam Gundry wrote: > Hi, > > Good error messages are a hard problem. That said, I think little tweaks > like this might make sense. Richard Eisenberg and I were discussing this > earlier, and we wondered if the following might provide an alternative > approach: > > Suppose

Re: Idea for improving communication between devs and potential devs

2014-02-19 Thread Jonathan Paugh
(Apologies for resending this, but my mailer was acting wonky. Also, apologies for dragging up a fairly old thread.) Hello. I'm (also) looking to get more involved with GHC, and Haskell generally. To that end, nominolo, could you give me a wiki account? Also, pending this discussion, what permissi

Re: Idea for improving communication between devs and potential devs

2014-02-19 Thread Jonathan Paugh
Hello. I'm also looking to get more involved with GHC, and Haskell generally. To that end, nominolo, could you give me a wiki account? Also, pending this discussion, what permissions would I need to write blog entries? https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog On 01/03/2014 06:21 PM, Howard B. Golden