Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.4 released

2018-10-16 Thread Jens Petersen
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 07:17, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.4 Thank you > As always, the full release notes can be found in the users guide, https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.4/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.4-notes.html#base-library I

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey

2018-10-16 Thread Boespflug, Mathieu
Since I was pinged up-thread, might as well chime in. If only to say "I agree": selection bias is what it is. Taylor's efforts to come to this committee are laudable. And really could help mitigate some issues we've seen with other surveys. Selection bias isn't something worth agonizing over,

Re: [Haskell] Treatment of unknown pragmas

2018-10-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Vladislav Zavialov writes: > What about introducing -fno-warn-pragma=XXX? People who use HLint will > add -fno-warn-pragma=HLINT to their build configuration. > A warning flag is an interesting way to deal with the issue. On the other hand, it's not great from an ergonomic perspective; afterall,

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey

2018-10-16 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via Haskell-community
| Hi Taylor. I like the way you pose things here: "I don't expect that | to remove selection bias, but it will let me (us, really) say: We're | doing this together for the benefit of all sides". I think that's a | better place to start from. I like this too -- and like Gershom, I'd delete

Re: [Haskell] Treatment of unknown pragmas

2018-10-16 Thread Matthew Pickering
I like the suggestion of a flag. For any realistic compilation you have to pass a large number of flags to GHC anyway. `stack`, `cabal` or so on can choose to pass the additional flag by default if they wish or make it more ergonomic to do so. On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:58 PM Jared Weakly wrote: >

Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey

2018-10-16 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via Haskell-community
Taylor On the GHC side, as I say we are going to do a 1-question GHC survey shortly, so you don't need to bother about that one. (I think it'd be too buried as one question among many in your survey.) | - Reaction to the new pace of GHC releases That would be interesting, yes. It would be

Re: [Haskell] Treatment of unknown pragmas

2018-10-16 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via Haskell
I rather agree. We don't even need a convention do we? /Any/ comment in {- -} is ignored by GHC /except/ {-# ... #-}. So tool users are free to pick whatever convention they like to identify the stuff for their tool. Simon | -Original Message- | From: ghc-devs On Behalf Of Ben Gamari

[Haskell] Treatment of unknown pragmas

2018-10-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi everyone, Recently Neil Mitchell opened a pull request [1] proposing a single-line change: Adding `{-# HLINT ... #-}` to the list of pragmas ignored by the lexer. I'm a bit skeptical of this idea. Afterall, adding cases to the lexer for every tool that wants a pragma seems quite unsustainable.

[Haskell] Call for Workshops Proposals in conjunction with ANT-2019

2018-10-16 Thread Yazan Mualla
== The 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2019) Leuven, Belgium April 29 - May 2, 2019 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-19/

[Haskell] ANN: DBFunctor – Functional Data Management / ETL Data Processing in Haskell

2018-10-16 Thread Nikos Karagiannidis
Dear all, I am pleased to announce the release on Hackage of a new Haskell ETL Library, namely DBFunctor-0.1.0.0. (“ETL” stands for Extract Transform and Load and is the standard technology for accomplishing data management tasks in Data Warehouses / Data Marts and in general for data