RE: ghc graphics library

2000-06-29 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Is anyone keen to do this? I'm sure Alastair would be happy to offer consultancy on the existing library, and we'd support on the GHC and Green Card front. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Alastair Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 28 June 2000 20:48 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones |

Re: Library conventions

2000-06-29 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:52:53AM -0700, Mark P Jones wrote: [...] Hugs is also quite old; it's core goes back nearly ten years! With a more "modern" interface, we might solve the interface dilemma by arranging for fully qualified names, types, etc. to pop up in a "tooltip" when

Re: What happened to the GRIN project?

2000-06-29 Thread Urban Boquist
Hi all, I'm sorry for this late reply - I have been traveling. Tommy The GRIN Project: A Highly Optimising Back End for Lazy Tommy Functional Languages I think John Hughes' summary of my work on GRIN was quite accurate, except for one thing; he was a bit overly optimistic on how large programs

Desugaring of top-level pattern bindings?

2000-06-29 Thread Tommy Thorn
I'm puzzled by the Haskell 98 report, as it doesn't seem to explain how to desugar top-level pattern declarations, such as (x,y) = e In Section 4.4.3 (Function and Pattern Bindings) under Pattern Bindings it essentially says ``A simple pattern binding has form p = e. The pattern p is