End of file on ReadChannels

1992-09-25 Thread Paul Hudak
w.dcs!sinclair Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 23:51:14 +0200 From: Lennart Augustsson As far as I can tell there is no way to detect EOF with ReadChannels. Maybe you should ask the designer (Paul Hudak) of this language feature how to do it. The endless stream of -1 with hbc is definitely

Re: Arrays and general function representation

1992-09-04 Thread Paul Otto
.) Do you advocate that? Paul

No Subject

1992-08-06 Thread Paul Hudak
allow using the same syntax to support arrays, lists, etc. Some people I know are working on that... -Paul

relative precedence of ! and function application

1992-08-06 Thread Paul Hudak
lists. Of course, if you really don't like the parens, you can always write your example as: f $ x!i where ($) is defined in the prelude as: infixr 0 $ f $ x = f x (:-) -Paul

Horses named Technology and "Time for a Change" run in Haskell race

1992-08-04 Thread Paul Hudak
A previous student of mine (Duke Briscoe) forwarded this to me (I've shortened it somewhat). Thought you all might enjoy it... -Paul OCEANPORT, N.J. (UPI) -- Owner Scott Savin has been saying for weeks that his Technology might be the ``best of the rest'' of 3-yea

Job Opportunity

1992-04-09 Thread Paul Hudak
decision within about a 6-week time-frame. For those not familiar with functional programming research at Yale, below is a list of faculty and graduate students, along with their research interests. Best regards, -Paul Professor Paul Hudak Department Of Computer Science Programming Languages an

Haskell tutorial

1992-03-31 Thread Paul Hudak
ses now. Enjoy, -Paul Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 18:25:26 EST From: john peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Haskell report 1.2 now available Announcing == The Haskell Report

Lazy data structures and irrefutable pattern matching

1992-03-31 Thread Paul Hudak
pattern matching. Sometime back there was some discussion about irrefutable patterns by Paul Hudak. But, I fear it didn't give egs. where such pattern matching was needed My earlier message tried to argue for the merits of "lazy patterns", a technical term for a kind of pat

Irrefutable patterns

1992-03-16 Thread Paul Hudak
e issues, see reference [8] in the Report. Having said all this, I won't say definitively that I am a fan of lazy patterns. But if we were to get rid of them, we would at a minimum need a different way to expla

exit in PreludeIO

1992-02-24 Thread Paul Hudak
ick to change! What do people think? (Especially Paul |and Joe.) -- P Sounds right to me. Paul? Yeah, that would be better. Simon, can you make the change? Given that, I wonder if the various other functions should use "exit" as the failure continuation instead of "abort"? (rather minor issue) -Paul

Literate comments

1992-02-06 Thread Paul Hudak
that the Prelude is presented with this convention in the report. I volunteer to draft the page. Paul, as syntax honcho you should rule on this. Cheers, -- P OK, here's a counter proposal: add a subsection 1.6 (1.5 is on layout) which describes the suggested convention on literate p

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