[Haskell] ANN: leapseconds-announced-2012

2012-01-07 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
be found below. Best regards, Bjorn Buckwalter [1] http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/leapseconds-announced -- Forwarded message -- From: Bjorn Buckwalter bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 13:23 Subject

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: leapseconds-announced-2012

2012-01-07 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
be found below. Best regards, Bjorn Buckwalter [1] http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/leapseconds-announced -- Forwarded message -- From: Bjorn Buckwalter bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 13:23 Subject

Perplexing GHC-7.0.3 behavior with hairy type-level code (regression from 6.12.3??)

2011-04-22 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Hello all, I am doing some fairly hairy type-level stuff with FunctionalDependencies, UndecidableInstances, and other. Without going into details I have the following function which compiles fine: vecMat :: (Transpose m m', MatrixVector m' v v', Num a) = Vec v a - Mat m a - Vec v' a

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: normaldistribution-1.0 – Minimum fuss normally distributed random values.

2011-04-09 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of the normaldistribution library on hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/normaldistribution This purpose of this library is to have a simple API and no dependencies beyond Haskell 98 in order to let you produce normally

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: normaldistribution-1.0 – Minimum fuss normally distributed random values.

2011-04-09 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of the normaldistribution library on hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/normaldistribution This purpose of this library is to have a simple API and no dependencies beyond Haskell 98 in order to let you produce normally

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: normaldistribution-1.1 – Minimum fuss normally distributed random values.

2011-04-09 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
be instances of Floating rather than just Fractional. (The pre-canned Random instances that satisfy Fractional, i.e. Double and Float, also satisfy Floating.) Cheers, Bjorn -- Forwarded message -- From: Bjorn Buckwalter bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 15:21

Re: Fix context reduction stack overflow in dimensional

2011-03-29 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 15:46, Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com wrote: Attached is a patch that fixes a context reduction stack overflow in your dimensional package. Thanks Bas, was the build failure on GHC 7.0.3? I don't believe this problem occurred on 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 although I'm not sure

Re: GHC 7.0.1 (or very strange dimensional-0.8.0.1) bug

2011-01-25 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Thanks for the report Pavel! Indeed strange. I don't have GHC 7.0.1 installed but definitely don't see this with 6.12.3. Did you put in a GHC bug report at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReportABug? If not I'll do it tomorrow. As a work-around you could try providing an explicit type

[Haskell-cafe] Why does cabal select base-3.0.3.2 when base-4.2.0.0 is available?

2010-04-26 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Dear all, Why does cabal seem to prefer base-3.0.3.2 over base-4.2.0.0 when installing packages with an unqualified base requirement? Example: $ cabal install -v fad --reinstall [snip] Resolving dependencies... selecting fad-1.0 (hackage) selecting base-3.0.3.2 (installed) and 4.2.0.0

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does cabal select base-3.0.3.2 when base-4.2.0.0 is available?

2010-04-26 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 19:38, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Bjorn Buckwalter bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com writes: Why does cabal seem to prefer base-3.0.3.2 over base-4.2.0.0 when installing packages with an unqualified base requirement? Example: You mean cabal-install

[Haskell-cafe] and [] = True; or [] = False

2010-04-26 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Dear all, Does it make good sense that 'and []' returns 'True' and 'or []' returns 'False'? The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming says so: The function or takes a list of truth values and returns True if at least one member of the list equals True, while and takes a list of truth

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does cabal select base-3.0.3.2 when base-4.2.0.0 is available?

2010-04-26 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:07, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Bjorn Buckwalter bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 19:38, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Bjorn Buckwalter bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com writes: Why does cabal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] and [] = True; or [] = False

2010-04-26 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
joc...@functor.nl wrote: Bjorn Buckwalter wrote: Dear all, Does it make good sense that 'and []' returns 'True' and 'or []' returns 'False'? The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming says so: The function or takes a list of truth values and returns True if at least one member

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: numtype 1.0 -- Type-level (low cardinality) integers

2009-06-06 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
' and 'century' units added. Enjoy! Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter [1]: http://code.google.com/p/dimensional/wiki/numtype [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/type-int [3]: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/tfp [4]: http

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: fad 1.0 -- Forward Automatic Differentiation library

2009-04-02 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
. Fad resides on GitHub[6] and hackage[7] and is only a cabal install fad away! What follows is Fad's README, refer to the haddocks for detailed documentation. Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter [1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functional_differentiation [2] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Vector

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: fad 1.0 -- Forward Automatic Differentiation library

2009-04-02 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
. Fad resides on GitHub[6] and hackage[7] and is only a cabal install fad away! What follows is Fad's README, refer to the haddocks for detailed documentation. Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter [1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functional_differentiation [2] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Vector

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Ease of Haskell development on OS X?

2009-03-20 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
don't think you'll have any more/significantly different problems than on Linux, and probably substantially less than on Windows (or I'm doing something wrong). Barring where the above contradicts him I concur with Thomas Davie. ;) Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter [1] http://tinyurl.com/cw64nd

[Haskell-cafe] Apologies for spamming Planet Haskell

2009-03-17 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
gratuitously editing old posts in the future. Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Parsing floating point numbers

2009-03-08 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
or Either) instead of an exception on bad inputs.) Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: leapseconds-announced-2009

2009-01-18 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 00:37, Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 00:34 -0500, Bjorn Buckwalter wrote: Thanks for the pointer. My source is the Earth Orientation Parameter (EOP) data at http://www.celestrak.com/SpaceData/; specifically I autogenerate the module

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: leapseconds-announced-2009

2009-01-17 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 00:00, Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org wrote: Bjorn Buckwalter wrote: leapseconds-announced is a pragmatic, if imperfect, improvement over my past practices. It provides a LeapSecondTable with all leap seconds announced to date (hence the name). Once the IERS

[Haskell] ANN: leapseconds-announced-2009

2009-01-16 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
, most people won't need this module I hope it can be of utility to someone. Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/leapseconds-announced [2] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/time/Data-Time-Clock-TAI.html [3] http

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Reader monad, implicit parameters, or something else altogether?

2008-12-16 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Richard A. O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz writes: Just an idiot-level question: so these constants are subject to revision, but *how often*? What is the actual cost of recompiling and using them *as* constants, compared with the cost of rereading the stuff every time you run the program and

[Haskell-cafe] Reader monad, implicit parameters, or something else altogether?

2008-08-18 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
evil to just what you need and rendering the Reader monad obsolete... What do you people recommend? Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Reader monad, implicit parameters, or something else altogether?

2008-08-18 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
evil to just what you need and rendering the Reader monad obsolete... What do you people recommend? Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Reader monad, implicit parameters, or something else altogether?

2008-08-18 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Bjorn Buckwalter wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Bjorn Buckwalter wrote: I would like to know if there is any

[Haskell-cafe] Re: I am new to haskell

2008-05-08 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Ambrish Bhargava bhargava.ambrish at gmail.com writes: Hi All,I am new to Haskell. Can anyone guide me how can I start on it (Like getting binaries, some tutorials)?Thanks in advance.-- Regards,Ambrish Bhargava Ambrish, When I started learning Haskell I had no previous exposure to functional

[Haskell-cafe] Re: I am new to haskell

2008-05-08 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Bjorn Buckwalter bjorn.buckwalter at gmail.com writes: I found the Gentle Introduction... mentioned elsewhere in this thread to be not-so-gentle as described on the tutorials wiki page. I'd avoid it unless you're already comfortable with functional programming. Let me modify that statement

[Haskell-cafe] Re: An offer to any haskell projects out there.

2008-03-13 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
michael at schmong.org writes: Hello, My name is Michael Litchard. I'm a techie living in silicon valley, and I want to move into tech writing. I've got the background, now I need a portfolio. I figured the best way to go is to attach myself to some open source

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Implementing fixed-sized vectors (using datatype algebra?)

2008-02-08 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Feb 6, 2008 8:47 PM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 2:30 AM, Bjorn Buckwalter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. Is this what people want -- one big hold-all library with everything, as opposed to smaller more specialized packages? I guess I can see advantages (real

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Implementing fixed-sized vectors (using datatype algebra?)

2008-02-06 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Feb 6, 2008 1:03 PM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 4:32 AM, Bjorn Buckwalter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that you (and Wolfgang) are creating a library of type level decimals for the purpose of constraining vector (list?) lengths. After that I haven't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Implementing fixed-sized vectors (using datatype algebra?)

2008-02-05 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
On Feb 5, 2008 2:16 PM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 4:10 PM, Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Aaron Denney wrote: On 2008-02-01, Bjorn Buckwalter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Naturals had been sufficient for me I wouldn't have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Implementing fixed-sized vectors (using datatype algebra?)

2008-02-05 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
I'm almost done with the decimal library but it would be nice to check some Integer implementations for future inclusion. So, Aaron, Björn, are your implementations available somewhere? As noted elsewhere in the thread my implementation is available at:

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Dimensional 0.7.2

2008-01-02 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
(introduced in GHC 6.8.1 and fixed in 6.8.2). For GHC 6.8.1 use version Dimensional 0.7.1 which lacks the CGS module. Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter http://dimensional.googlecode.com http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/dimensional On Nov 23, 2007 8:32 AM, Bjorn Buckwalter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: DSL question -- was: New slogan for haskell.org

2007-12-27 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
this as an example to the library wiki[1]. The version of the code with type signatures is there and the whole page can be copy-pasted as literate haskell if you want to try it: [1] http://code.google.com/p/dimensional/wiki/ErrorMessagesAndDebugging On Dec 26, 2007 12:56 PM, Bjorn Buckwalter [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Haskell-cafe] Re: DSL question -- was: New slogan for haskell.org

2007-12-26 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Steve Lihn stevelihn at gmail.com writes: I do come aross a question while reading the DSL page on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_programming_language In the Disadvantage section (near the end), there is an item -- hard or impossible to debug. Can anybody explain

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Dimensional 0.7.1 (GHC 6.8.1 compatibility)

2007-11-23 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
Dear all, The Dimensional library has been ported to GHC 6.8.1 (it remains backwards-compatible with GHC 6.6.1, and also with Cabal 1.1.6 I believe). The new version number is 0.7.1. Due to a GHC 6.8.1 bug (#1919) the CGS module will not compile and has been disabled. Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: hslogger4j 0.1.1

2007-10-19 Thread Bjorn Buckwalter
]. The library also includes some optional supporting Java files (most importantly a jar) necessary to use Chainsaw with the richer hslogger levels. The README should clarify usage. Thank you, Bjorn Buckwalter [1] http://hslogger4j.googlecode.com [2] http://software.complete.org/hslogger [3] http