Re: ">>" and "do" notation

2002-04-02 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 08:48:41PM +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote: > Point taken, but I remain unconvinced. What comes out of the > monad /isn't/ abstract; there's nothing to ensure that > subsequent use respects the abstraction. Sure. That's the programmer's responsibility to keep track of. To me

Re: sort inefficiency

2002-04-02 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Glenn G. Chappell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > I am wondering about a design decision in the List module. > > To wit: "sort", in both the H98 library report and the Hugs file > List.hs, is implemented using a quadratic sort (insertion sort). > > Using the name "sort" certainly suggests that this

handling errors in Happy

2002-04-02 Thread Andre W B Furtado
Is it possible to get the result of function happyError, in the main module of my program (which imports the module generated by Happy)? Thanks a lot, -- Andre ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

JVM-Bridge Current Status

2002-04-02 Thread Ashley Yakeley
1. Changes So Far The following changes have been checked into CVS since the 0.1 release: Native/ * MacOS X support * Beginnings of mingw32 support * New Sun 1.4 JVM * Now installs in /usr/lib/jvm-bridge/ * ExecuteFunction bindings now done at run-time Haskell/ * MacOS X suppor

Inefficient sort implementation

2002-04-02 Thread Glenn G. Chappell
I am wondering about a design decision in the List module. To wit: "sort", in both the H98 library report and the Hugs file List.hs, is implemented using a quadratic sort (insertion sort). Using the name "sort" certainly suggests that this is a good function to use for sorting. I would think it

Re: ">>" and "do" notation

2002-04-02 Thread Jon Fairbairn
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:00:37 +0200 (MET DST), John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If (as a human reader of a programme) I see > > > >do a <- thing1 > > > > > >and I notice (perhaps after some modifications) that a is > >not present in , then I /rea

Re: Lambda over types.

2002-04-02 Thread oleg
anatoli wrote: > This is all, of course, of purely academical interest. The notation > is extremely inconvenient to do any real work. I'd rather prefer > a real, language-supported lambda over types. > Or... wait a minute! You did find all those problems; does it mean > you tried to *use* thi

Haskell Reference at Zvon (alpha release)

2002-04-02 Thread Miloslav Nic
Hello, I have put on-line alpha version of Haskell reference: http://zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputglobal/index.html I would appreciate your comments and suggestions. -- ** Miloslav Nic [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zvon.org _

PLAN-X: Programming Language Technologies for XML

2002-04-02 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
PLAN-X: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR XML Oct 3, 2002 Pittsburgh, PA (Co-located with PLI) CALL FOR PAPERS Submission deadline: May 1, 2002 XML has emerged as the de facto standard

Re: a survey of language popularity

2002-04-02 Thread Ketil Z. Malde
Richard Uhtenwoldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here are some Google search results that suggest how many web pages > are devoted to particular langauges. (Google tells you how many pages > match your query.) A better survey of language popularity would > include newsgroup and mailing list tra