Re: Weekly IRC meeting?

2008-07-15 Thread Simon Marlow
Ok, the first weekly IRC meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 16 July (tomorrow) at 1600 BST (UTC+1) 0800 PDT (UTC-7) 1100 EDT (UTC-4) 0100 Thursday in Sydney (sorry guys :-) If it turns out to be useful, we'll make it a regular thing. See you in #ghc on chat.freenode.net. More

Re: Advice sought for 6.9 and Arrow/Category

2008-07-15 Thread Conal Elliott
All code that defines Arrow instance breaks, because () is not a method of Arrow. I have a lot of such instances, so I'm now adding #if directives to test for ghc-6.9 or later. - Conal On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: conal: I want to use ghc-6.9 for

Bug in type equality constraints?

2008-07-15 Thread Conal Elliott
I'm converting some code from functionally dependencies to associated types, and I've run into a problem with equality constraints and subclasses. The classes: class AdditiveGroup v = VectorSpace v where type Scalar v :: * (*^) :: Scalar v - v - v class VectorSpace v =

Re: Advice sought for 6.9 and Arrow/Category

2008-07-15 Thread Conal Elliott
By the way, here's how I'm changing my code to work with the new and old arrow interface. I'd appreciate any suggested improvements. The old code (example): import Control.Arrow [...] instance Arrow (~) = Arrow (Bijection (~)) where Bi ab ba Bi bc cb = Bi (ab bc) (cb ba)