[GHC] #826: Optimization breaks strictness with IO

2006-07-15 Thread GHC
#826: Optimization breaks strictness with IO ---+ Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal |Milestone:

Poor compile times

2006-07-15 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi, Using GHC 6.4.2 on Windows and 6.4.1 on Linux, I get really poor compile time performance for large do blocks - for example: main = do return () return () return () The following are the compile times in seconds for a given number of return () lines, GHC 6.4.1 on Linux, with a

Package mounting proposal

2006-07-15 Thread Sven Moritz Hallberg
Hi lists, (I hope my cross-posting is okay, but somehow this post seems to apply to all of you, so here goes...) I've recently noticed that folks at GHC HQ are working on a way to resolve the problem of importing two modules with the same name from different packages. There is a proposal[1] on

Re: [Haskell] What would Haskell middleware look like?

2006-07-15 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Paul, Saturday, July 15, 2006, 3:33:14 AM, you wrote: I've noticed that many other languages have a middleware to handle distribution and concurrency issues. Haskell has STM for shared-memory there is Distributed Haskell library, although rather old:

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] The History of Haskell

2006-07-15 Thread Krasimir Angelov
It was very interesting reading. Thanks! The slightly anecdotal style of writing is making it even pleasant to read. On 7/14/06, Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, Phil Wadler, John Hughes, Paul Hudak and I have been writing a paper about the The History of Haskell

[Haskell] Re : What would Haskell middleware look like?

2006-07-15 Thread minh thu
hi, you can add distributed database to your list... i'm thinking of mnesia in erlang (i don't know erlang). in fact, you probably could add all the features of erlang :) cheers, thu 2006/7/15, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Paul, Saturday, July 15, 2006, 3:33:14 AM, you wrote:

[Haskell] Package mounting proposal

2006-07-15 Thread Sven Moritz Hallberg
Hi lists, (I hope my cross-posting is okay, but somehow this post seems to apply to all of you, so here goes...) I've recently noticed that folks at GHC HQ are working on a way to resolve the problem of importing two modules with the same name from different packages. There is a proposal[1] on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Windows PowerShell Monad

2006-07-15 Thread Krasimir Angelov
Mostly coincidence. It isn't a good choice for name, I think but the same is true for .NET. Each time when I am googling for .NET I receive lots of irrelevant results. The same will happen with Monad now. On 7/14/06, Chad Scherrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, that's its codename. Now, I'm not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The History of Haskell

2006-07-15 Thread Krasimir Angelov
It was very interesting reading. Thanks! The slightly anecdotal style of writing is making it even pleasant to read. On 7/14/06, Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, Phil Wadler, John Hughes, Paul Hudak and I have been writing a paper about the The History of Haskell

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ldap-haskell questions

2006-07-15 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Ferenc Wagner wrote: ... Second, I find no trace of SSL/TLS routines. Is that really left out, or do I overlook something? OpenLDAP supports an option LDAP_OPT_X_TLS -- ldap_set_option Nothing LDAP_OPT_X_TLS

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is Day and Month bounded?

2006-07-15 Thread Johan Holmquist
2006/7/14, David House [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14/07/06, Johan Holmquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean [Monday, Tuesday ... Sunday, Monday] ? Actually not. No repetitions. That seems like a very bad idea. '..' normally means 'inclusive', breaking those semantics would be a very weird

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Windows PowerShell Monad

2006-07-15 Thread Chad Scherrer
On 7/15/06, Krasimir Angelov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mostly coincidence. It isn't a good choice for name, I think but the same is true for .NET. Each time when I am googling for .NET I receive lots of irrelevant results. The same will happen with Monad now. It's not even a production release

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Windows PowerShell Monad

2006-07-15 Thread Evan Martin
On 7/16/06, Chad Scherrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/06, Krasimir Angelov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mostly coincidence. It isn't a good choice for name, I think but the same is true for .NET. Each time when I am googling for .NET I receive lots of irrelevant results. The same will happen

[Haskell-cafe] packaging modules with internal-only functions

2006-07-15 Thread Evan Martin
I'm writing an FFI bindings module, and one of the pieces from the library I want to wrap is their Error type. module Error where To the user of the module, I'd like to only expose the nicely wrapped interface: data Error = Error String String instance Typeable Error where ... -- for