[Haskell] Announce: Yi 0.6.4.0

2011-07-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
* Corey O'Connor * Jeff Wheeler * Jeremy Wall * Reiner Pope * Robin Green and all the contributors to the previous versions. Also, Yi would not exist without all the work put into the Haskell platform. [1] https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/blob/master/README.md [2] https://github.com/yi-editor/yi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] For Project Euler #24 you don't need to generate all the lexicographic permutations Spoiler

2011-05-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
/Euler_problems/21_to_30 -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

2011-04-21 Thread Jeff Wheeler
what the problems with Darcs actually are? Yi, a fairly large and old repository, recently moved to (primarily) Git. Our motivation was not flaws in Darcs, but rather GitHub. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.3

2011-03-28 Thread Jeff Wheeler
the same switch on Yi? (I'll readily admit that I don't really know the advantages of data-accessor vs. fclabels.) I don't know about rose-zipper, but I'll look at that. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.3

2011-03-28 Thread Jeff Wheeler
think I definitely should have left the build-depends: alex in there, if for no other reason than that Cabal doesn't read my mailing-list post to know that Yi depends on the Haskell Platform. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.3

2011-03-25 Thread Jeff Wheeler
This release is brought to you by: * Alexey Levan * Gwern Branwen * Issac Trotts * Jean-Philippe Bernardy * Jeff Wheeler * Jeremy Wall * Maciej Piechotka * Malte Sommerkorn and all the contributors to the previous versions. Also, Yi would not exist without all the work put into the Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell mailing lists followup?

2011-03-15 Thread Jeff Wheeler
for several days, whereas other email was coming through fine. Having re-enabled delivery, everything seems fine. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: HSCurses - Hello World? (can't find much documentation)

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
can get pretty far reading the NCurses Programming HOWTO: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/ Also, http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html. You might also want to look at the vty and vty-ui packages, which provide nicer, higher-level UIs for terminals. -- Jeff

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi on Windows

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Wheeler
know if it works. The alternative would be to force the file to be read strictly then closed. I think it's only important that they be deleted after a successful compile. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi on Windows

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Wheeler
for yi. Best of luck, and thanks for playing with Yi! -Jeff -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi on Windows

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Wheeler
should fix this, but I don't have time to try it right now. If dyre defaults to using a directory that doesn't exist on 7, I'd say that's a bug in dyre. We should probably tell Will Donnelly (the maintainer) if that's correct. Again, thanks so much for looking at this. -- Jeff Wheeler

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi on Windows

2010-10-12 Thread Jeff Wheeler
. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks Peter ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ordering vs. Order

2010-10-09 Thread Jeff Wheeler
the original message, this seems to be the misunderstanding. The verb order can be interpreted as something like sorting (what we mean in Haskell, can also be said to be giving order to the list) or to command something, which is pretty much a completely different meaning. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

2010-04-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
IRC. I can't think of many bits of the internet that don't.) Yep. On the internet, you get to be anonymous. Why don't we kick people that don't have their name in their email address or IRC nick? -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Jeff Wheeler
or weight. I'd move the description onto the same line (wrapping if necessary), but a lighter weight and a lighter gray (same color as the Latest Event?). Just some ideas to think about. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
be worth looking into. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.2.2

2010-03-25 Thread Jeff Wheeler
that are incompatible with 6.10. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.2.2

2010-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
for the Haskell and JS parsers. * Replaced HConf with Dyre, which handles xmonad-style configs and recompiles. * Upgrade to VTY 4.0, which has large speed improvements. * Many, many optimizations. Yi 0.6.2.2 is on Hackage here: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-0.6.2.2 -- Jeff Wheeler

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.2.2

2010-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
for both, but I don't see how. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.2.2

2010-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
reason. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.2.2

2010-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.2.2

2010-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
function calls (f x = f $ x, but using the fairly smart parser). It's difficult at best to use tools with no manual. I absolutely agree and issue #253 [1] would take us a long ways in the right direction. [1] http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/issues/detail?id=253 -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate

[Haskell-cafe] SoC Proposals?

2010-03-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
this library, like Yi, for other types of tiling. I'd love to see other ideas related to Yi, too. It's a great project but on the verge of death (although the maintainer, JPB, is interested in mentoring). -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC Proposals?

2010-03-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambda's

2009-12-30 Thread Jeff Wheeler
NSFW, by the way. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: I love lambda's: -- Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Design question

2009-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
, but generalized algebraic datatypes (GADTs) might be what you're looking for. -- Jeff Wheeler (Sorry, sent this to the author originally.) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote:  Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal  packages. Let's call them cabbages. +1 Yes, let's. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Wheeler
dolls. The original idea, cabbage, doesn't seem silly to me. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Compiling Yi's Dependencies on Windows

2009-09-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
, not just Yi. Are there any other dependencies that have trouble on Windows which I haven't run into yet? If they're library dependencies, can the headers be included in the Hackage tarball? Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-09 Thread Jeff Wheeler
*nix environments (Windows doesn't have anything like sudo, as far as I know). Since it works essentially the same as *nix does, as of Windows 7, I see no reason for a different default. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
confusing. Yep, I agree. I'm not sure why Cabal defaults to --global on Windows, but I found it quite counter-intuitive having come from a Linux environment. I forgot about the different default for some time. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Request for Changelogs

2009-08-06 Thread Jeff Wheeler
and linking to from Hackage would be a very simple way to do changelogs in Hackage. I like this solution. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghci identifier listing question

2009-07-28 Thread Jeff Wheeler
list all identifiers which start with a given prefix, but I would like to know if GHCi can show me all identifiers defined in a given module or in the current session (by pressing Tab or alike). Yes, this will list the current bindings: :show bindings Jeff Wheeler

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Simple quirk in behavior of `mod`

2009-07-22 Thread Jeff Wheeler
and div operations let's please put them in a separate module. Couldn't the same be said for round-to-even, instead of rounding down like every other language? I doubt any beginners have ever expected it, but it's probably better. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Adding an ignore function to Control.Monad

2009-07-11 Thread Jeff Wheeler
be ignored, and skipped. But it is, and only part --- the result --- is ignored. What about 'void' with functors? Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hsparql, a SPARQL query generator/DSL and client

2009-07-09 Thread Jeff Wheeler
anything about them. I guess I have a good excuse to go learn them, though, now. :) Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Leaner Haskell.org frontpage

2009-07-09 Thread Jeff Wheeler
empty page that might as well be included at the link's location); and 3) the Search link underneath the About header, which doesn't seem to belong at all. Jeff Wheeler (Sorry, sent this to just Derek at first.) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hsparql, a SPARQL query generator/DSL and client

2009-07-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
feedback on this package. Thanks! Jeff Wheeler [1] http://dbpedia.org/ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hsparql ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Non Empty List?

2009-06-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 02:08 +0200, GüŸnther Schmidt wrote: As for the zipper: In some of the examples I've seen, the zipper is implemented on top of an underlying data structure, but not the data structure itself. In my app I was actually going to pull a zipper over it, once I had the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] May all logos be freely used?

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
of tools around to generate various versions with roudedness and different colors. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Error message reform (was: Strange type error with associated type synonyms)

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
of the literal argument (String), so I would assume the inferred type was the type in the function's signature. Unfortunately, my reasoning in both cases can go the wrong way . . . Better language may be much more helpful, although I'm not sure what may be easier to interpret. Jeff Wheeler

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Error message reform (was: Strange type error with associated type synonyms)

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
in context. As a native English speaker myself, I've also found it awkward because both types are inferred, I suppose. The alternate format you've suggested would make it much more clear, in my opinion, and I strongly feel that the current version should be replaced with yours. Jeff Wheeler

Re: [Haskell-cafe] WolframAlpha

2009-05-06 Thread Jeff Wheeler
for the next 10 years, like Duke Nukem Forever. The website says May 2009 (this month), and I don't know of any previous announcements claiming to have a date. I'm buying this one. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Best text editor

2009-04-14 Thread Jeff Wheeler
, and Yi's haddock documentation now builds fine. This should soon be available on Hackage also, when the Haddock there is upgraded. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell] Re: Hi-res/vector version of logo?

2009-04-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
the same way for the concept. Jeff Wheeler [1] http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/ ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Link errors in Gtk2Hs are more general than I thought.

2009-04-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
an issue that causes only the first line of any buffer in the Pango Yi UI to be visible [2], which makes this much less useful. Jeff Wheeler [1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs [2] http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/issues/detail?id=261 ___ Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The votes are in!

2009-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
contributing there. I now hang about in #yi most every day, and #haskell quite frequently too. I rarely have anything sufficiently interesting for the mailing list. ;) Again, thanks (and Darrin, too)! Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
are easy to fix, at which point I can rerun the bootstrap script. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
think much can be done here. I would not (and should not) expect the bootstrap.sh file to use apt to get the missing dependencies as I had to do. I don't think there's any general solution to this, beyond better error handling (which apparently you just improved). Jeff Wheeler

[Haskell] An Alternative Data.List.Zipper

2009-01-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
of the old library, provide it in a conflicting package, or find a new namespace for it and provide it there? Thanks, Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell] An Alternative Data.List.Zipper

2009-01-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
don't *think* this has an effect on strictness/laziness, since both versions are strict in the spine of the list. Excellent suggestion; your solution is much more readable and faster. I've made the change here: http://hpaste.org/14030#a1 Thanks, Jeff Wheeler

Re: [Haskell] An Alternative Data.List.Zipper

2009-01-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
from #haskell, also. Thanks for the comments. :) Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell] An Alternative Data.List.Zipper

2009-01-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
://hpaste.org/14030#a5 Thanks for the feedback, Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
= (That's how I originally thought of it, just was too lazy to post it anywhere. Sorry about that.) I like that too; not sure what to do for Yi, though. Anybody mind if I add these to the wiki, too? I feel like I'm taking up tons of space, there. Jeff Wheeler [1] http://media.nokrev.com/junk

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
on the wiki) is about the extent of my graphic ability, but I'll try to give it a shot regardless. Thanks for the feedback. :) Jeff Wheeler signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
about a second version that more obviously defines the second '' with color from the bottom-right part of the lambda. Jeff Wheeler [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
about a second version that more obviously defines the second '' with color from the bottom-right part of the lambda. Jeff Wheeler [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png [2]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo2.png

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
, unfortunately, so it'll stay for the moment. Jeff Wheeler [1] http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo4.png ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Terminal-like Application Design

2008-10-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
, and if so, how? Thanks in advance, Jeff Wheeler [1] http://media.nokrev.com/junk/cli/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] maybe a goal and challenge for the Haskell in terms of scientific computing

2008-10-03 Thread Jeff Wheeler
, without knowing much Python, to write large programs that work well for most of their purposes. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe