Re: Calling Java From Haskell

1998-11-16 Thread Claus Reinke
>My interpretation of the last set of mailings on the issue was that people >had given up. Obviously that was incorrect. We never give up!-) Well, almost never. It was a frustrating experience, and I spend a lot of time debugging perfectly correct programs, searching for documentation, and wai

Re: rename class Functor ?

1998-11-16 Thread Hans Aberg
At 09:13 +0300 1998/11/16, S.D.Mechveliani wrote: >> In the Prelude >> ~~~ >> >> class Functor f where >> fmap :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b > > >What about renaming it, say, to Mappable f ? > >It looks like the word `functor' is taken from the very category >t

Re: Calling Java From Haskell

1998-11-16 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Claus Reinke wrote: > >My interpretation of the last set of mailings on the issue was that people > >had given up. Obviously that was incorrect. > > We never give up!-) Well, almost never. :-) > Finally, I had to put the problem aside and wait for the environment > (JDK i

rename class Functor ?

1998-11-16 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > We're nearly done with Haskell 98. > ... > In the Prelude > ~~~ > > class Functor f where > fmap :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b What about renaming it, say, to Mappable f ? It looks like the word `functor'