haskell and exceptions

1998-01-28 Thread Matthias Fischmann
Hi all, I am now trying to learn Haskell for half a week and I like it a lot. But I still did not find out too much about exception handling. Is it possible that there is no ml-like mechanism with `raise' and `handle' built in? Yes, I know about types like data Result t = ERROR | Yes t and I

PartialOrd class

1998-01-28 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Alex Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (8 Dec 1997) on Partially annoying orders: > I recently found myself needing a partial order class, and found > that: > The most likely-looking operator symbols are all "taken"; > It'd be desirable to have such a class be a superclass of Ord, but > this

Announcement of PhD Positions in Computing Science at Chalemrs

1998-01-28 Thread Mary Sheeran
The Department of Computing Science at the Chalmers University of Technology and Goteborgs University announces free PhD positions. The major research topics at the department are programming logic and type theory, functional programming, concurrency, fault tolerant distributed systems, formal me

ANNOUNCE: GHC 3.00 Released

1998-01-28 Thread Simon Marlow
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.00 == We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 3.00. The source distribution is freely available via the World-Wide Web and through anon.