Re: Active Haskell development and libraries

2002-10-28 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > The Libraries and Tools For Haskell page has quite a list of things, but a > few broken links, and links to very many projects that seem to have > started off as interesting research projects that, as the page itself > says, were more proofs of concept and

Re: can't find sequence?

2002-10-28 Thread Andrew J Bromage
G'day all. On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:47:08AM +, Alastair Reid wrote: > (btw There were some remarks that Chris's library might be dropped > from distributions because no-one is supporting it. I don't recall > whether a decision was made on this.) If Jason is using a version of Edison that

Active Haskell development and libraries

2002-10-28 Thread Mark Carroll
The Libraries and Tools For Haskell page has quite a list of things, but a few broken links, and links to very many projects that seem to have started off as interesting research projects that, as the page itself says, were more proofs of concept and are no longer maintained. We can't help but be

RE: Interruptibility and thread safeness with readMVar

2002-10-28 Thread Simon Marlow
> How does the ghc run-time system determine if an operation is > interruptible > when within "block" function scope? Explanations I've read in various > papers/web pages state that an operation is interruptible, > even within a the > scope of the "block" function, if that operation can potential

RE: autocompletion mode for ghci?

2002-10-28 Thread Simon Marlow
> is there any mode for the ghci, which provides autocompletion > like e.g. the bash? GHCi on Unix provides autocomplete through the readline library (the same library used by bash) albeit only for filenames and directories. We don't compile with readline support on Windows (I'm not sure why). I

Interruptibility and thread safeness with readMVar

2002-10-28 Thread Patrick Bosworth
How does the ghc run-time system determine if an operation is interruptible when within "block" function scope? Explanations I've read in various papers/web pages state that an operation is interruptible, even within a the scope of the "block" function, if that operation can potentially block waiti

Re: can't find sequence?

2002-10-28 Thread Alastair Reid
> For some reason I can't find references to these packages > Control.Monad.Identity and Sequence. WinHugs barfs on the former The current release of Hugs doesn't support hierarchial module names. The next release will support them. See http://haskell.org/pipermail/hugs-users/2002-October/00