Re: Weekly IRC meeting?

2008-07-22 Thread Simon Marlow
Thomas M. DuBuisson wrote: Ian and I talked about possibly trying a different time - 9pm UK time, which would be slightly less friendly to us in the UK (I have my work/life balance to think about you know :-) but more friendly to people in the US. I, for one, am happy with the current time;

Re: Advice sought for 6.9 and Arrow/Category

2008-07-22 Thread Spencer Janssen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:45:55PM +0200, Conal Elliott wrote: 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 (~) =

Re: Advice sought for 6.9 and Arrow/Category

2008-07-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 04:57 -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote: I'm testing for ghc version. Could I somehow test for the base-library version instead? - Conal Yes. Here is a snippet from binary.cabal: flag applicative-in-base library if flag(applicative-in-base)

Re: Weekly IRC meeting?

2008-07-22 Thread Thomas M. DuBuisson
By all means start a more general Haskell meeting too, but I want to keep this one for GHC. The VCS debate is about what system GHC should use, not the community as a whole. The HLP discussion is on topic because it is so closely related to how we release/package/ship GHC. Ah, I assumed