extra_ghc_opts package field in 5.02

2001-09-25 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Dear ghc-5.02, Does the extra_ghc_opts package field work in 5.02 ? For I cannot make it work, so far. - Serge Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Path Issues on Windows 2000

2001-09-25 Thread Antony Courtney
Hello GHC team, I just succesfully installed GHC 5.02 on Windows 2000, and it (basically) worked. However, I have run in to a couple of issues: 1 (minor). The last dialog box of the Installer recommended adding \bin to my PATH. This should have been C:\Program Files\Glasgow Haskell

More GHC 5.02 binaries available

2001-09-25 Thread Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)
The web site (http://www.haskell.org/ghc) now has final binary builds for x86-Linux sparc-solaris Windows NT/2K/XP and allegedly 95/98/ME Additionally, the final source tarball is now on the web page. I claim (and earnestly hope) it is suitable for building other binary builds of

Joy language. Reply

2001-09-25 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
S. Alexander Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I just found out about a functional programming language called Joy (see http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html). Joy differs from Haskell in that it has no variables. Instead, all functions are postfix, taking a stack as

Re: Joy and Concatenative Programming

2001-09-25 Thread hw
Hello S., Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 9:08:48 AM, you wrote: SAJ I just found out about a functional programming language called Joy (see SAJ http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html). SAJ Joy differs from Haskell in that it has no variables. Instead, all SAJ functions are

Re: RFC: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Ch. A. Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Basically, I like the suggestions, but want to clarify: * The library focuses on graphical *user interfaces* (ie, buttons, menus, scrollbars, selection lists, etc) as opposed to drawing and animation routines. Many applications where GUIs

Re: RFC: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Ashley Yakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, At 2001-09-24 05:44, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: *** The GUI Library Task Force Strategy Proposal *** It's worth pointing out that I'm covering much of the same ground with my bridge to the Java VM.

Re: RFC: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
The promised GUI mailing list is now available: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/gui Manuel ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

RE: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, | * Start from the API of GTK+ as a base line: That's fine by me. But can I suggest that the task force be sure to read the details of the Clean GUI library design. Peter Aachten (while visiting Cambridge) rendered a good chunk of it into

ANNOUNCE: Hat and nhc98 version 1.08

2001-09-25 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Hat + nhc98 version 1.08 We are pleased to announce a new release of Hat and the nhc98 compiler. This is a stable release, containing many bugfixes in both the compiler and the Hat tracing and debugging tools. If you have

ANNOUNCE: Happy version 1.11

2001-09-25 Thread Simon Marlow
ANNOUNCING Happy 1.11 - The LALR(1) Parser Generator for Haskell - I'm pleased to announce version 1.11 of Happy, the parser generator system for Haskell. This is a minor update from version 1.10, with - a bugfix for

Re: RFC: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Juan Carlos Arévalo Baeza
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:41:06 +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:  Many applications where GUIs are used require a canvas/scribble field  with the following basic functionality:   - set a point in a particular color; if speed is an issue,    mapping a 2D-array content to the canvas would be

RE: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
Given that Haskell98 is not ready for libraries anyway, why are you so concerned about it? A GUI system without concurrency is still incomplete. The haskell library interface story is still pretty weak because there is no consensus about what monad they should expose (and whether they should

IEEE Conf.on Software Maintenance, Italy,Florence, ICSM2001

2001-09-25 Thread NESI
Dear Colleague I would like to invite you to attend the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001, and associated workshops: IEEE SCAM, IEEE WESS, IEEE WSE, TABOO. FLORENCE, ITALY, 6-10 November 2001 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/icsm2001 ICSM is the major international conference

RE: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2001-09-25 01:53, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: * I am not a big fan of introducing an extra monad (`GUI' in this case). It can easily become a pain in programs that do a lot of normal IO as you have to lift all IO functions to GUI. Heh. I had to do this for JVM-Bridge because all

Re: Application letters at the Haskell workshop: suggestion

2001-09-25 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 15-Sep-2001, Mark Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Sep 2001, Mike Gunter wrote: The problem is not a loss of referential transparency but the requirement that evaluation order must be specified. E.g. what should raise left + raise right return? (snip) Ah!

More GHC 5.02 binaries available

2001-09-25 Thread Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)
The web site (http://www.haskell.org/ghc) now has final binary builds for x86-Linux sparc-solaris Windows NT/2K/XP and allegedly 95/98/ME Additionally, the final source tarball is now on the web page. I claim (and earnestly hope) it is suitable for building other binary builds of

RE: Joy and Concatenative Programming

2001-09-25 Thread Frank Atanassow
[redirected to haskell-cafe] I just found out about a functional programming language called Joy (see http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html). Joy differs from Haskell in that it has no variables. Instead, all functions are postfix, taking a stack as their argument and

Haskell - C/C++ comunication (sockets/pipes?)

2001-09-25 Thread Jorge Adriano
Hi all, I was thinking about making some GUIs in Qt/KDE for some haskell applications (compiled with ghc). My first idea was to simply run haskell applications with some args using the GUI and get the results from some file or something like that. Anyway someone told me that a better idea

Re: Haskell - C/C++ comunication (sockets/pipes?)

2001-09-25 Thread Sengan
Jorge Adriano wrote: Hi all, I was thinking about making some GUIs in Qt/KDE for some haskell applications (compiled with ghc). My first idea was to simply run haskell applications with some args using the GUI and get the results from some file or something like that. Anyway someone told