ghc-4.00

1998-11-16 Thread Alex Ferguson
Still can't build 4.00 from source (see bug report, elselist), and it's also not yet on the ftp site in binary form. *whinge!* Slainte, Alex.

rename class Functor ?

1998-11-16 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes We're nearly done with Haskell 98. ... In the Prelude ~~~ class Functor f where fmap :: (a - b) - f a - f b What about renaming it, say, to Mappable f ? It looks like the word `functor' is taken

Re: rename class Functor ?

1998-11-16 Thread Hans Aberg
At 09:13 +0300 1998/11/16, S.D.Mechveliani wrote: In the Prelude ~~~ class Functor f where fmap :: (a - b) - f a - f b What about renaming it, say, to Mappable f ? It looks like the word `functor' is taken from the very category theory and

Re: Calling Java From Haskell

1998-11-16 Thread Claus Reinke
My interpretation of the last set of mailings on the issue was that people had given up. Obviously that was incorrect. We never give up!-) Well, almost never. It was a frustrating experience, and I spend a lot of time debugging perfectly correct programs, searching for documentation, and

Re: Calling Java From Haskell

1998-11-16 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Claus Reinke wrote: My interpretation of the last set of mailings on the issue was that people had given up. Obviously that was incorrect. We never give up!-) Well, almost never. :-) Finally, I had to put the problem aside and wait for the environment (JDK