Re: Gif writer module

1998-09-27 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Dave" == Dave Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Be aware that such a standard cuts both ways: what you get Dave is good but you probably get a substantially lower amount of Dave stuff. Case in point: I've got a collection of Haskell Dave scripts (not libraries but useful as

Re: bug in ghc-pre-4.00 ?

1998-09-12 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Simon" == Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: class Incrementable a where increment :: a - a instance (Num a) = Incrementable a where increment = (+ 1) Incrementable.hs:7: Illegal instance declaration for `Incrementable a' (There must be at least one

bug in ghc-pre-4.00 ?

1998-08-30 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
The following code: module Test ( Incrementable ) where class Incrementable a where increment :: a - a instance (Num a) = Incrementable a where increment = (+ 1) compiled on a Debian 1.3 K6(intel clone) Linux box with: /usr/local/fptools-pre-4.00/bin/ghc -c -fglasgow-exts

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-15 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn Advice on what's the most appropriate ORB to target Sigbjorn would be greatly appreciated, there's already quite a Sigbjorn selection to choose from (ORBit, Mico, omniORB etc.) omniORB2 is CORBA-2 and IIOP compliant

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-14 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Marko" == Marko Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marko FYI, there is also MICO: Marko http://www.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/ The MICO home page says: The difference to other free imlementations is, that MICO is developed for educational purposes [...] As opposed to use

Re: Current state of GUI libraries for Haskell

1998-08-08 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
The last I read about Haggis was that it would be ported to ghc-2.xx and be involved in the ghc / hugs integration. Is this port still in progress or was it abandoned ? Personally I had been happily anticipating the completion of the port, since I used Haggis in the past and was rather

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-08 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something Sigbjorn similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see Sigbjornhttp://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/hdirect [...] Sigbjorn This document expresses the

Re: Binary files in Haskell

1998-03-14 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Malcolm" == Malcolm Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Malcolm In fact, Binary allows you to process the data directly Malcolm from the disk rather than hauling it all into memory. Malcolm This eliminates start-up time altogether. What's more, Malcolm provided the file is used

green-card

1998-02-28 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
Hi, (Please ignore my (quite a bit) earlier complaint about green-card (it was another case of version mismatch)). There is a more persistent problem with green-card-2.0. It generates c files, as follows: Foo.gc == Foo.hs, Foo.c, Foo.h which is a bit confusing for make: Foo.hs == Foo.o Foo.c

hbc library

1998-02-28 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
Hi, The hbc library has rotted a little since the libraries were re-organised. Tim -- diff -c -r fptools.orig/CONTRIB/libraries/contrib/Makefile fptools/CONTRIB/libraries/contrib/Makefile *** fptools.orig/CONTRIB/libraries/contrib/Makefile Tue Feb 3 23:50:47 1998 ---

Re: Binary files in Haskell

1998-02-24 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Tony" == Tony Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tony This has well know disadvantages. Simon has already pointed Tony out that it's not relocatable. It's also limited to the size Tony of virtual memory and takes up that amount of space even Tony though most of it may not be used.

Re: Binary files in Haskell

1998-02-22 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Steve" == Steve Roggenkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve I would like to use Haskell for several larger scale Steve projects, but I can't figure out how to read and write Steve binary data. It does not appear that the language supports Steve binary files. Am I missing

Re: multi-dimensional arrays in haskell

1998-02-21 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn Timothy Robin BARBOUR writes: I would like to create multi-dimensional haskell mutable arrays. Sigbjorn I'm unable to reproduce this one (tried it with 2.10 Sigbjorn under linux, and with 2.10 + 3.0

ghc-3.00 and green-card-2.0

1998-02-21 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
Hi, When trying to compile green-card-2.0 with ghc-3.00 I get this: . ghc -recomp -O -H10m -fglasgow-exts -c Parse.lhs -o Parse.o NOTE: Simplifier still going after 4 iterations; bailing out. NOTE: Simplifier still going after 4 iterations; bailing out. panic! (the `impossible'

Re: building ghc-3.00 using ghc-2.10

1998-02-21 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn Thanks, could you check to see if you've got a .depend Sigbjorn in ghc/lib that's non-empty trb@elysium /usr/local/build/fptools-test ls -l ghc/lib/.depend -rw--- 1 trb users 45391 Feb 20 14:56

Re: building ghc-3.00 using ghc-2.10

1998-02-20 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn looks like the initial `make boot' in ghc/lib didn't Sigbjorn succeed, as the first module that should have been Sigbjorn compiled was ghc/PrelBase.lhs Sigbjorn Try re-running `make boot' from within ghc/lib and

multi-dimensional arrays in haskell

1998-02-20 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
Hi, I would like to create multi-dimensional haskell mutable arrays. The program below fails to link when compiled with ghc-2.10 or ghc-3.00 (-fglasgow-exts -fvia-C -cpp -recomp) on a debian 1.3 linux box. Upon commenting out the line containing "error", it links, but fails at run-time with:

building ghc-3.00 using ghc-2.10

1998-02-19 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
Hi, I am trying to use ghc-2.10 (from a Glasgow binary bundle) to build ghc-3.00 from source, on a debian 1.3 linux box. My build.mk is as follows: WithGhcHc = ghc-2.10 Ghc2_0=YES ProjectsToBuild += happy ProjectsToInstall += literate happy GhcHcOpts += -H32m -O GhcLibWays += mc mr