Doctoral and post-doctoral positions in FP

1999-08-31 Thread Erik Meijer
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Wish list for Hugs and GHC

1999-08-31 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Gentle colleagues It has gradually become clear that the GHC and Hugs developers (mostly, but not entirely, at Microsoft Research and OGI) have become a bottleneck when it comes to discussing and refining proposals for enhancements to GHC, Hugs, and (soon, soon) the glorious combination thereof.

FW: ICFP programming contest

1999-08-31 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Folks, don't forget the ICFP programming contest! It's a 3-day programming challenge, aimed primarily at the FP community. There's a 1-day 'blitzkrieg' version, aimed at people (like me) who have families that won't tolerate absence for a weekend. You can do it all 5pm Thurs - 5pm Fri! ht

Re: Licenses and Libraries

1999-08-31 Thread trb
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, > > > Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: > > > "Erik Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > > [...] > > > I understand that the fact that COM fixes the binary > > > interface makes it much easier to deal with. > > > > I don't und

Re: Towards a more OO Haskell

1999-08-31 Thread Michael Hobbs
Jaewoo Kim wrote: > > > Many people have said this, but I still haven't found an instance where > > existential types are *needed*. For example, if you declare a data type: > > How about this? Is the following example possibly accepted in any extended > Haskell system? > > class Sequence seq a

Re: Towards a more OO Haskell

1999-08-31 Thread Jaewoo Kim
> Many people have said this, but I still haven't found an instance where > existential types are *needed*. For example, if you declare a data type: How about this? Is the following example possibly accepted in any extended Haskell system? class Sequence seq a where empty :: seq a cons :