Re: How to get started with a new backend?

2013-01-27 Thread David Terei
I believe that some Microsoft Research folks at Cambridge got a fairly far along implementation of Haskell on Java or .NET many years back but concluded it wasn't a good fit. My rusty memory of a conversation with Simon Marlow about this was that all the Java libraries basically ended up in IO and

Request for review of a GADT tutorial draft

2013-01-27 Thread Anton Dergunov
Dear Haskell community, I have recently written an introductory-level tutorial article about GADTs in GHC (inspired by LASER 2012 summer school and to be submitted to their proceedings). I have already send this draft to the "Haskell Cafe" mailing list, but I was also advised to use these mailing

Re: How to get started with a new backend?

2013-01-27 Thread Christopher Done
> The trac claims that ghc can compile itself to C so that only standard gnu C > tools are needed to build an unregistered compiler. Wait, it can? Where's that? On 28 January 2013 02:15, Jason Dagit wrote: > I would like to explore making a backend for .NET. I've done a lot of > background read

How to get started with a new backend?

2013-01-27 Thread Jason Dagit
I would like to explore making a backend for .NET. I've done a lot of background reading about previous .NET and JVM attempts for Haskell. It seems like several folks have made significant progress in the past and, with the exception of UHC, I can't find any code around the internet from the previo

Re: data kinds

2013-01-27 Thread Edward Kmett
This has the problem that kind is currently a valid function name, so it would take a new keyword, or at least on conditional on the DataKinds extension. -Edward On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Erik Hesselink wrote: > When we discussed this last time (summarized by the link Pedro sent, I >> th

Re: Error building ghc on raspberry pi.

2013-01-27 Thread roconnor
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, rocon...@theorem.ca wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Karel Gardas wrote: On 01/21/13 12:49 AM, rocon...@theorem.ca wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Karel Gardas wrote: Okay, I patched the settings filed generted by ./configure in the binary-dist and rank make install which comple

Re: data kinds

2013-01-27 Thread Erik Hesselink
> > When we discussed this last time (summarized by the link Pedro sent, I > think) it came up that it might be nice to also > have kind synonyms, which would be analogous to type synonyms, but one > level up. The "natural" syntax for that would be to have a "type kind" > declaration, but this se