Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-04 Thread Darren Grant
Thank you all for the hard work. The new features are already of great help to me! Cheers, Darren On 2013-09-04 2:13 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On behalf of the cabal maintainers and contributors I'm proud to announce the Cabal (and cabal-install) 1.18.0 release.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subclass or no subclass?

2013-07-01 Thread Darren Grant
Here's another thought (not my own): Abstractions can be classified based on where responsibility lies. Popular languages implementing interface composition expect the caller to know almost nothing about the concrete details while the callee has to handle all concrete permutations. Conversely,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] question about indentation conventions

2013-06-30 Thread Darren Grant
Hi Richard, This page helped me when starting out: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Indentation On 2013-06-30 4:55 PM, Richard Cobbe co...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I hope I'm not starting a holy war with this, but I'm curious about an aspect of coding style that's been bugging me for a while,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Promoting Haskell via Youtube movies

2013-06-17 Thread Darren Grant
Third. I really like the hands on approach. Cheers, Darren On 2013-06-17 12:09 PM, Taylor Hedberg t...@tmh.cc wrote: AlanKim Zimmerman, Mon 2013-06-17 @ 20:38:55+0200: This looks like quite a good series https://www.youtube.com/user/jekor Seconded. I have really enjoyed his videos so far

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Backward compatibility

2013-05-05 Thread Darren Grant
Just to be clear, is WASH beyond redemption, or would it be worth reviving again? If so, why? Cheers, Darren On 2013-05-05 1:48 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: The case of WASH is a pity. Architecturally It was more advanced that many recent haskell web frameworks. The

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type classes, collections, sum types, closures, and a massive headache

2013-01-28 Thread Darren Grant
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bob Hutchison hutch-li...@recursive.cawrote: Now, this is how I got caught: it seems to be impossible to have collections of things with a common type class if they have different types. How is it that I've written that many lines of code in Haskell and I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: Leksah 0.13.1.1 (a bit experimental)

2013-01-06 Thread Darren Grant
Thank you kindly for this release! System-wide package metadata is working with my platform install now. :) Cheers, d On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Hamish Mackenzie hamish.k.macken...@gmail.com wrote: I fixed some annoying issues with 0.13.1.0 and added Panes-HLint. OS X (using Gtk3)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal failures...

2012-11-20 Thread Darren Grant
Why not? Either way, I am chiming in as a programmer of many years. Unless using osx I stick with windows to avoid half-day forays into nettling technical issues that are not related to the work I am paid to perform. I would love for Haskell to work better there. On Nov 20, 2012 5:21 PM, Johan

Re: [Haskell-cafe] code length in Haskell, a comparison

2012-11-19 Thread Darren Grant
I find myself wondering where Rebol would stand in this. On Nov 19, 2012 8:35 PM, KC kc1...@gmail.com wrote: I am leery of code comparisons (but not Timothy Leary of them). Clojure being a JVM language has the advantage of the massive Java class libraries. If Haskell could tie in fairly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Sylvia, a lambda calculus visualizer

2012-09-27 Thread Darren Grant
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Chris Wong chrisyco+haskell-c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all Some of you in the audience may have read Dave Keenan's paper, [To Dissect a Mockingbird][]. A subset of that may have wondered if it was possible to generate those pretty pictures programmatically.