Re: Welcome, and getting started

2015-03-31 Thread John Wiegley
Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com writes: Is the ability to generate dlls with both shared and non-shared RTS's a feature of dynamic linking? At Standard Chartered we build non-shared (static) dlls on Windows 32bit and shared-RTS dlls/sos on Linux 64bit. Both are essential to us. I believe

ANN: git-monitor

2015-01-22 Thread John Wiegley
now, so I felt it finally deserved an announcement here. Thank you, John Wiegley (johnw on IRC/freenode) ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: New implementation draft for -XStaticPointers

2014-12-02 Thread John Wiegley
Facundo Domínguez facundo.doming...@tweag.io writes: We are pleased to announce a new implementation draft of the StaticPointers extension [1]. Very nice, thank you! John ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Re: GHC Trac

2014-11-03 Thread John Wiegley
Simon Peyton Jones simo...@microsoft.com writes: Is it just me, or is the GHC Trac soul-destroyingly slow at the moment? IT takes minutes to load one page! You may be interested in the Mylyn plugin for the Eclipse IDE, which allows for downloading and offline browsing of issues in Trac. That

Re: Windows build broken in Linker.c

2014-10-16 Thread John Wiegley
Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com writes: I was working on a fix yesterday but ran out of time. Frankly this code is a nightmare, every time I touch it it breaks on some platform - this time I validated on 64 bit Windows but not 32. Aargh indeed. Before I start breaking this code up into

Re: Permitting trailing commas for record syntax ADT declarations

2014-09-26 Thread John Wiegley
Richard Eisenberg e...@cis.upenn.edu writes: What if we just stopped requiring commas in import/export lists? As far as I can tell, they're not necessary for proper parsing. +1 John ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: Preliminary proposal: Monoidal categories in base and proc notation support

2014-09-15 Thread John Wiegley
Sophie Taylor sop...@traumapony.org writes: I am working on a proposal for some additions to the base library and some modifications to GHC in the same style as the do notation support for Applicatives. It is still very much a work in progress, but any input/ constructive criticism would be

Re: The list fusion lab

2014-09-11 Thread John Wiegley
David Feuer david.fe...@gmail.com writes: Joachim Breitner wrote: Together with John Wiegly at ICFP, I started to create a list performance laboratory. You can find it at:         https://github.com/nomeata/list-fusion-lab Many thanks to you both! This sounds like an excellent idea. I do

Re: Regression in the typechecker in GHC 7.8.2

2014-06-16 Thread John Wiegley
Simon Peyton Jones simo...@microsoft.com writes: Copying ghc-devs. Oleg says: | Sorry for reporting a problem via e-mail. It seems track no | longer accepts anonymous (guest) submissions. When I tried to register | the account I was told that my submission is a spam. The tracker is

Re: A possible alternative to dot notation for record access

2013-07-01 Thread John Wiegley
. Imagine this possible code: foo :: Maybe Foo - Bar foo (fromMaybe def - x) = \x - case x of Foo x - x-y-z I think it might get a bit ugly to give it a 5th meaning. -- John Wiegley FP Complete Haskell tools, training and consulting http://fpcomplete.com

Re: Release plans

2013-03-20 Thread John Wiegley
for getting real work done, but I wouldn't have the same reservations concerning a 7.7.x interim developer release. -- John Wiegley FP Complete Haskell tools, training and consulting http://fpcomplete.com johnw on #haskell/irc.freenode.net

Re: GHC Performance Tsar

2012-11-30 Thread John Wiegley
email us when a benchmark dips). I'll pitch in with this too. I'd like to offer to help with benchmarking on Mac x86_64, if it would be useful to add another architecture to the mix. I just need a little hand- holding to get starting. -- John Wiegley FP Complete Haskell

Re: GHC on OpenIndiana

2012-09-16 Thread John Wiegley
asyropoulos asyropou...@aol.com writes: I am trying to compile the GHC on OpenIndiana (essentially Solaris 11). I follow the steps in Hi Apostolos, It took me a while to finally figure this out, but in the end I was able to get GHC 7.4.2 working nicely on OpenIndiana. Here are the steps I