Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] pros and cons of static typing andside effects ?

2005-08-17 Thread Stefan Holdermans
Ralf, Technically this is trivial it seems. I think that some people consider this proposal a problem because typos (misspelled type parameters) immediately lead to the accidental exploration of a more advanced type-system feature and correspondingly more involved error messages. Of course,

[Haskell-cafe] embedding prolog in haskell.

2005-08-17 Thread Keean Schupke
Does anyone know if the source code for the embedded prolog (by Silvija Seres Michael Spivey) is available for download from anywhere? I have read the paper and found some of the types are wrong, some critical definitions are missing, and the definition of unify is missing. Regards,

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] pros and cons of static typing andside effects ?

2005-08-17 Thread Ralf Lammel
I don't even want this feature. :-) The point being that datatype declarations, *as such*, are explicit anyhow. Why bother about the explicit quantifiers then? Of course, in a language with inferred datatypes I would mind. That's an interesting question! I also wouldn't (yet?!) support this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] pros and cons of static typing andside effects ?

2005-08-17 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 8/17/05, Ralf Lammel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't even want this feature. :-) The point being that datatype declarations, *as such*, are explicit anyhow. Why bother about the explicit quantifiers then? Of course, in a language with inferred datatypes I would mind. That's an

[Haskell-cafe] Oracle + Haskell advice?

2005-08-17 Thread Brian Strand
Hello, I'm thinking about (re)writing some perl code in Haskell (for performance and correctness reasons). Has anyone done much with Oracle and Haskell? So far I've gotten takusen (http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/haskell-libs/libs/takusen/) to compile and run on my Suse 9.3 x86-64 box against