[Haskell-cafe] cabal update doesn't work on Windows XP

2010-06-03 Thread John O'Donnell
Hi, Has anyone managed to get cabal to run on Windows? I'm running Windows XP. There are lots of other things, including old version of Haskell tools, installed, but it's too costly to try installing cabal on a fresh machine image. Whenever I do cabal update, the response is Unsuccessful

RE: Quasi quoting

2010-02-01 Thread John O'Donnell
serious. Since [t|t-ts] and other forms are gone, I've come to think of the syntax [foobar| as already taken for all foobar. The loss here seems minimal but the gain is that DSLs can look more natural. John O'Donnell -Original Message- From: glasgow-haskell-users-boun...@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing great documentation[MESSAGE NOT SCANNED]

2009-11-14 Thread John O'Donnell
its own documentation files. This is usful in a GUI program, for example, where it's nice to make the documentation availble under the Help menu. Something along these lines (with a cleaner design) would be generally useful. John O'Donnell On 11/13/2009 10:31 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote

Loading plugin with ghc api

2009-03-23 Thread John O'Donnell
Hi, I would like to use the API for ghc, so that a running program can load a module (Foo.o) and use a function defined in that module. From the documentation available, it seems like thatś possible, but I can´t figure out how to do it. There is an example on the wiki, but the explanation

RE: ghci-haskeline (was: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.1 - EditLine / terminal incompatibility?)

2008-11-21 Thread John O'Donnell
on the main platforms (including Macintosh - has that been tested?). If ghc tries to support both readline and editline, along with haskeline, applications written in Haskell will have different behaviours depending on the combination (platform,line-editor). Better just to simplify. John O'Donnell

RE: [Haskell-cafe] FPGA / Lava and haskell

2008-07-12 Thread John O'Donnell
examples,: www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jtod/publications/1995-Hydra-FPLE/ www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jtod/publications/2002-Hydra-PDSECA/ www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jtod/publications/2004-DeriveFastAdder/ John O'Donnell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alfonso

RE: [Haskell-cafe] hs-plugins compile error

2008-06-03 Thread John O'Donnell
but according to gcc documentation -V requires an argument. Has anyone managed to get hs-plugins to work? If so, what platform, which version of ghc and gcc, and where did you find the hs-plugins source? Best wishes, John O'Donnell ... from config.log... gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8

RE: [Haskell-cafe] hs-plugins compile error

2008-06-03 Thread John O'Donnell
years ago, but it's never worked on any of my systems since then. John -Original Message- From: Edsko de Vries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 2008-06-03 15:35 To: John O'Donnell Cc: Edsko de Vries; Don Stewart; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] hs-plugins compile

Re: Representing cyclic data structures efficiently in Haskell

2003-07-08 Thread John O'Donnell
sharing (Claessen and Sands, 1999) is identical to the solution that was implemented in Hydra in the mid 80's and described in the 1988 paper; the difference is that they call the approach observable sharing instead of pointer equality. Best wishes, John O'Donnell

Haskell in Scientific Computing

1998-10-16 Thread John O'Donnell
reka steps, but the transformational approach may make it possible to automate the boring steps while allowing the programmer to insert clever insights. You can't do this with compilers, and you can't do it with languages that can express algorithms only at one level of abstract

Re: numerics in Haskell

1998-08-04 Thread John O'Donnell
algebraic laws. There need to be several flavors of complex numbers, since there are two orthogonal issues: (1) how to represent the complex itself (real+imaginary, polar representation etc.), and (2) what underlying type is used for the components (Float, Double, Rational, Real etc.) John