Re: [GHC] #2358: Template Haskell's TupleT considers unary tuples as a valid types.

2009-02-07 Thread GHC
#2358: Template Haskell's TupleT considers unary tuples as a valid types. -+-- Reporter: fons |Owner: Type: merge | Status: closed Priority:

[GHC] #3009: ghci-6.10.1 has odd buffering behavior

2009-02-07 Thread GHC
#3009: ghci-6.10.1 has odd buffering behavior +--- Reporter: judahj | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: GHCi Version: 6.10.1 | Severity:

Re: [GHC] #2358: Template Haskell's TupleT considers unary tuples as a valid types.

2009-02-07 Thread GHC
#2358: Template Haskell's TupleT considers unary tuples as a valid types. -+-- Reporter: fons |Owner: Type: merge | Status: closed Priority:

[GHC] #3010: RegAllocLinear.getStackSlotFor: out of stack slots ghc 6.10.1 for i386-unknown-mingw32 compiling Crypto-4.1.0

2009-02-07 Thread GHC
#3010: RegAllocLinear.getStackSlotFor: out of stack slots ghc 6.10.1 for i386 -unknown-mingw32 compiling Crypto-4.1.0 --+- Reporter: agocorona | Owner: Type: bug| Status: new

[Haskell] HaskellWiki Accounts

2009-02-07 Thread Ashley Yakeley
I just discovered I can create HaskellWiki accounts really easily. If you want one, email me your desired username. Medial spaces are allowed in usernames (just as they are in article titles). -- Ashley Yakeley ___ Haskell mailing list

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 104 - February 7, 2009

2009-02-07 Thread Brent Yorgey
--- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20090207 Issue 104 - February 07, 2009 --- Welcome to issue 104 of HWN, a newsletter covering

[Haskell] ANN : happs-tutorial 0.7

2009-02-07 Thread Creighton Hogg
Hello, I'm pleased to announce the release of happs-tutorial 0.7 on Hackage. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/happs-tutorial This is the first release of happs-tutorial built against the new Happstack project. Not much has changed in content since the last release

Re: [Haskell] ANN : happs-tutorial 0.7

2009-02-07 Thread Matthew Elder
Congratulations on the release Creighton and thank you! On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Creighton Hogg wch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm pleased to announce the release of happs-tutorial 0.7 on Hackage. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/happs-tutorial This is the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Fastest regex package?

2009-02-07 Thread Eugene Kirpichov
2009/2/5 ChrisK hask...@list.mightyreason.com: Eugene Kirpichov wrote: All in all, my question remains: what is the fastest way to do this kind of parsing on a lazy bytestring? Your example regular expression works the same in both Posix and Perl-ish semantics. Do you know the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Switching from Mercurial to Darcs

2009-02-07 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de [2009-02-05 23:34:53 +0100]: Peter Verswyvelen schrieb: 3) hg addrem this adds new files and removes deleted files from local repos. forgetting to add files is a common problem, and is really tricky since no record is made of these

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Switching from Mercurial to Darcs

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas Davie
On 6 Feb 2009, at 10:12, Paolo Losi wrote: Henning Thielemann wrote: 4) hg commit -m message this commits my changes locally. I always do this before pulling since then I'm sure my changes are saved in the case a merge goes wrong. In old darcs its precisely the other way round. Since it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

2009-02-07 Thread David Waern
2009/1/31 Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com: In celebration of Hackage reachin over 1,000 unique packages, I decided that I would re-visit the problem of attempting to build them on Windows. I began by removing all existing Haskellness from my PC. I now have a vanilla Windows XP

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haddock Markup

2009-02-07 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 21:17 schrieben Sie: It doesn't really matter if TeX is a good or bad idea for writing maths. For our users, they might do a formula if it's TeX, they won't if it's something else. Oh, what ignorant users! ;-) Well, if this discussion is about changing the real

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haddock Markup

2009-02-07 Thread Khudyakov Alexey
On Friday 06 February 2009 21:24:35 Andy Smith wrote: 2009/2/6 Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org: So using TeX as a general language for math is a very bad idea, in my opinion. The problem is that there is no good language which provides enough structural information for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haddock Markup

2009-02-07 Thread Khudyakov Alexey
On Friday 06 February 2009 13:31:34 George Pollard wrote: My comment isn't related to the wider implications of third-party hooks into Haddock, but just for the (La?)TeX stuff itself. I think that the TeX *language* is great for writing mathematics, but that we should be wary of blindly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ready for testing: Unicode support for Handle I/O

2009-02-07 Thread Khudyakov Alexey
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 19:42:44 Simon Marlow wrote: I've been working on adding proper Unicode support to Handle I/O in GHC, and I finally have something that's ready for testing. I've put a patchset here: http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/base-unicode.tar.gz ... skipped ...

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Ready for testing: Unicode support for Handle I/O

2009-02-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Khudyakov, Saturday, February 7, 2009, 4:01:57 PM, you wrote: How do you plan to handle filenames? Currently FilePath is simply a string. i think that this patch does nothing to unicode filenames support -- Best regards, Bulat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell-beginners] Just how unsafe is unsafe

2009-02-07 Thread Kalman Noel
As I didn't catch the whole thread, I hope I'm not just repeating everyone else: Roel van Dijk wrote: I guess what unsafe should mean is a matter of taste. Personally I find correctness more important that pureness. An unsafe function will crash your program if evaluated when its

[Haskell-cafe] Moggi :: CT - Hask

2009-02-07 Thread Gregg Reynolds
Hi, I had a monadic revelation at about 3 am. The answer to the question what is an IO value, really? is who cares? I just posted a blog entry discussing how CT found it's way from Moggi into Haskell at http://syntax.wikidot.com/blog (hence the title; Moggi as functor). It addresses the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Moggi :: CT - Hask

2009-02-07 Thread Gregg Reynolds
Correction: the correct response is: Nothing. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Gregg Reynolds d...@mobileink.com wrote: Hi, I had a monadic revelation at about 3 am. The answer to the question what is an IO value, really? is who cares? I just posted a blog entry discussing how CT found

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson wrote: A call has gone out http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-December/051836.html for a new logo for Haskell. Candidates (including a couple http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Haskell-logo-revolution.png of mine

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Don Stewart
paul: Paul Johnson wrote: A call has gone out http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-December/051836.html for a new logo for Haskell. Candidates (including a couple http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Haskell-logo-revolution.png of mine

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Moggi :: CT - Hask

2009-02-07 Thread Dan Doel
On Saturday 07 February 2009 12:11:29 pm Gregg Reynolds wrote: I had a monadic revelation at about 3 am. The answer to the question what is an IO value, really? is who cares? I just posted a blog entry discussing how CT found it's way from Moggi into Haskell at http://syntax.wikidot.com/blog

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Andrew Wagner
We need a voting site set up. There was some progress prior to the end of the year. Updates welcome! -- Don Can't we just use the haskell proposal reddit for this? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Don Stewart
wagner.andrew: We need a voting site set up. There was some progress prior to the end of the year. Updates welcome! -- Don Can't we just use the haskell proposal reddit for this? Hmm... not ideal. Would make a backup should all else fail.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Andrew Wagner
Um, ok. Glad we could discuss it On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: wagner.andrew: We need a voting site set up. There was some progress prior to the end of the year. Updates welcome! -- Don Can't we just use the haskell proposal reddit

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Don Stewart
Oh, we had a long discussion about the need for condorcet voting, not a system like the reddit which is prone to abuse. Also, it would be good to have the images inline. wagner.andrew: Um, ok. Glad we could discuss it On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Don Stewart

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Don, Saturday, February 7, 2009, 8:20:23 PM, you wrote: We need a voting site set up. There was some progress prior to the end of the year. Updates welcome! i think that there are a lot of free voting/survey services available. the last one i went through was LimeSurvey available for

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 104 - February 7, 2009

2009-02-07 Thread Brent Yorgey
--- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20090207 Issue 104 - February 07, 2009 --- Welcome to issue 104 of HWN, a newsletter covering

[Haskell-cafe] HSGI: Haskell Server Gateway Interface

2009-02-07 Thread Manlio Perillo
Lately I have started to think about how I would like to implement a web application framework in Haskell. To keep my thoughts well defined, I have decided to write some documents. My ideas are heavily based on my experience with Python WSGI, and a Python WSGI framework I'm implementing

[Haskell-cafe] Semantic web

2009-02-07 Thread gregg reynolds
Anybody implementing rdf or owl stuff in haskell? Seems like a natural fit. G___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Semantic web

2009-02-07 Thread Don Stewart
dev: Anybody implementing rdf or owl stuff in haskell? Seems like a natural fit. http://www.ninebynine.org/RDFNotes/Swish/Intro.html Needs moving to Hackage. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Oh, we had a long discussion about the need for condorcet voting, not a system like the reddit which is prone to abuse. Also, it would be good to have the images inline. Perfect, please meet better. Better, perfect.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Don Stewart
gwern0: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Oh, we had a long discussion about the need for condorcet voting, not a system like the reddit which is prone to abuse. Also, it would be good to have the images inline. Perfect, please meet better.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: gwern0: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Oh, we had a long discussion about the need for condorcet voting, not a system like the reddit which is prone to abuse. Also, it would be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Don Stewart
gwern0: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: gwern0: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Oh, we had a long discussion about the need for condorcet voting, not a system like the reddit which is prone to abuse.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HSGI: Haskell Server Gateway Interface

2009-02-07 Thread Felix Martini
Hi Manlio, Have you looked at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WebApplicationInterface ? If you did is there something in that proposal that you think should be changed or is not clear? There is currently a lot of interest in writing web frameworks for Haskell and it would be great if the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: haddock-2.3.0 literate comments discarded from .lhs input

2009-02-07 Thread Alistair Bayley
2009/2/6 Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk: Yes, against my better judgement the code in Cabal for haddock-2.x does not run cpp or unliting like it does for haddock-0.x. Instead it assumes that haddock-2.x will do all the cpp and unliting itself. Obviously this mean the special

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Gwern Branwen
2009/2/7 Don Stewart d...@galois.com: Quite so, biased by the fact that they dropped off the page. I'm not saying reddit is unsuitable for communal decision making -- I've thought hard about this -- just that isn't perfect, and this isn't really its purpose. It would make a good backup if we

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bind as a sequencing operator (Was: evaluation semantics of bind)

2009-02-07 Thread Derek Elkins
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:47 -0700, m...@justinbogner.com wrote: Jake McArthur j...@pikewerks.com writes: m...@justinbogner.com wrote: | Oops, sent this off list the first time, here it is again. | | Jake McArthur j...@pikewerks.com writes: | m...@justinbogner.com wrote: | | Bind is a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] morphisms in IO

2009-02-07 Thread Derek Elkins
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:52 -0600, Gregg Reynolds wrote: I'm working on a radically different way of looking at IO. Before I post it and make a fool of myself, I'd appreciate a reality check on the following points: a) Can IO be thought of as a category? I think the answer is yes. No.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Don Stewart
gwern0: 2009/2/7 Don Stewart d...@galois.com: Quite so, biased by the fact that they dropped off the page. I'm not saying reddit is unsuitable for communal decision making -- I've thought hard about this -- just that isn't perfect, and this isn't really its purpose. It would make a good

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2009-02-07 Thread Don Stewart
bulat.ziganshin: Hello Don, Saturday, February 7, 2009, 8:20:23 PM, you wrote: We need a voting site set up. There was some progress prior to the end of the year. Updates welcome! i think that there are a lot of free voting/survey services available. the last one i went through was

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HSGI: Haskell Server Gateway Interface

2009-02-07 Thread Manlio Perillo
Felix Martini ha scritto: Hi Manlio, Have you looked at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WebApplicationInterface ? If you remember, I posted a few messages in the thread where WAI was announced. There is a separate channel where we can discuss in detail? Or should I just use this thread?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HSGI: Haskell Server Gateway Interface

2009-02-07 Thread Felix Martini
There is a separate channel where we can discuss in detail? Or should I just use this thread? This is a good topic for the web-de...@haskell.org list. I'll post my reply there. Felix ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HSGI: Haskell Server Gateway Interface

2009-02-07 Thread Manlio Perillo
Felix Martini ha scritto: Hi Manlio, Have you looked at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WebApplicationInterface ? If you did is there something in that proposal that you think should be changed or is not clear? There is currently a lot of interest in writing web frameworks for Haskell and it

[Haskell-cafe] Function const (Binding)

2009-02-07 Thread TKM
Hello, I've a small question about the function const. I'm a bit of confused about how it binds. Let me take the following expression as example: const id 1 2 If I execute this expression, I will get as answer 2 with Helium. Now is my question, why doesn't it give me 1 as the answer? Because

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Function const (Binding)

2009-02-07 Thread Tony Morris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe it will help with parentheses: (const id 1) 2 (const id 1) ignores the second argument and yields the id function so then id 2 which is just 2. TKM wrote: Hello, I've a small question about the function const. I'm a bit of confused about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Function const (Binding)

2009-02-07 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009 00:24 schrieb TKM: Hello, I've a small question about the function const. I'm a bit of confused about how it binds. Let me take the following expression as example: const id 1 2 If I execute this expression, I will get as answer 2 with Helium. Now is my

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: HLint 1.2

2009-02-07 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Duncan Coutts wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 15:06 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote: It has to be manually transformed into a version that is not recursive at the top level: map :: (a - b) - [a] - [b] map f = go where go [] = [] go (x:xs) = f x : go xs Then

[Haskell-cafe] ANN : happs-tutorial 0.7

2009-02-07 Thread Creighton Hogg
Hello, I'm pleased to announce the release of happs-tutorial 0.7 on Hackage. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/happs-tutorial This is the first release of happs-tutorial built against the new Happstack project. Not much has changed in content since the last release

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Just how unsafe is unsafe

2009-02-07 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Peter Verswyvelen wrote: I do have asked myself the question whether a really random generating function could be regarded as pure somehow Not really. Somewhere in your program you are likely to make the assumption that a value you obtained, however indirectly, from this function will be the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Moggi :: CT - Hask

2009-02-07 Thread Gregg Reynolds
Hi Dan, On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Dan Doel dan.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 07 February 2009 12:11:29 pm Gregg Reynolds wrote: As far as I know, Moggi didn't really have anything directly to do with Haskell. He pioneered the idea of monads being useful in denotational semantics.