Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 22:53, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, To ease my maintenance burden, I've moved the network package repo to:    http://github.com/haskell/network Patches are accepted either in the git mbox format, as normal (diff) patch files, or as GitHub pull

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 October 2010 03:41, Victor Oliveira rhapso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cafe, I really liked the new colors of haskell theme, but... Is really red a good color for links?  At least for me, red links looks like broken or already visited ones. And the worst is hackage docs. It is really eye

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com wrote: On 28 October 2010 03:41, Victor Oliveira rhapso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cafe, I really liked the new colors of haskell theme, but... Is really red a good color for links?  At least for me, red links looks like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?

2010-10-28 Thread Dmitry V'yal
On 27.10.2010 13:16, Andy Stewart wrote: Christopher Donechrisd...@googlemail.com writes: On 27 October 2010 10:13, Dmitry V'yalakam...@gmail.com wrote: While ago I had a question about opening the url in the default browser from haskell program. I didn't get any immediate answers so I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] On being called a troll

2010-10-28 Thread Ketil Malde
Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com writes: I have posted to this list for over 3 years now and until lately it was an enlightening experience. The responses to my questions have usually been helpful and friendly. Right - in most cases, the Haskell community is fanatically non-hostile. At least

[Haskell-cafe] Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas
Hi haskellers. Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is the CompositionAsDot issue. I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: * Paves the way for using . as the selection operator in improved record or module systems I think I recognize this issue from common

Re: [Haskell-cafe] concurrency vs. I/O in GHC

2010-10-28 Thread Erik Hesselink
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 23:09, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: On 27/10/2010 05:00 PM, John Lato wrote: I am somewhat surprised that all capabilities must be ready for GC; I thought with the parallel GC that wouldn't be necessary.  But I don't know much about GC

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 October 2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas alexander.kjeld...@gmail.com wrote: I think I recognize this issue from common lisp.  Basically the code becomes verbose because accessor functions usually need to redundantly encode the name of the module or struct in its name.  The alternative is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread John Lato
From: Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 22:53, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, To ease my maintenance burden, I've moved the network package repo to: Â Â http://github.com/haskell/network Patches are accepted either in the git mbox

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?

2010-10-28 Thread Andy Stewart
Dmitry V'yal akam...@gmail.com writes: On 27.10.2010 13:16, Andy Stewart wrote: Christopher Donechrisd...@googlemail.com writes: On 27 October 2010 10:13, Dmitry V'yalakam...@gmail.com wrote: While ago I had a question about opening the url in the default browser from haskell program. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread Dupont Corentin
Thank you for your rich responses. Indeed I think I miss some thinks in my DSL, that would make things easier to deal with lists and first class functions. I don't really know what for now. Perhaps a List Constructor? Or a constructor on functions like yours Ryan? EAp :: Exp ref (a - b) - Exp ref

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread John Smith
On 28/10/2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: Hi haskellers. Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is the CompositionAsDot issue. I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: * Paves the way for using . as the selection operator in improved record or module

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Victor Oliveira
Maybe we can keep at least the docs without red links. It's very eye tiring to read. One option is to keep the links black with :hover red. []s Victor On Oct 28, 2010, at 5:52 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com wrote: On 28

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: language-java-0.1.0

2010-10-28 Thread Niklas Broberg
Hi café, I found myself in need of a source manipulation suite for Java code. A hackage search turned up nothing, so I wrote one: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/language-java I'm sure there are a number of bugs waiting to be discovered, my own testing hasn't been overly extensive. I'm

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: language-java-0.1.0

2010-10-28 Thread Niklas Broberg
I'm sure there are a number of bugs waiting to be discovered, my own testing hasn't been overly extensive. I'm setting up a trac, will follow up with its location once it's up. http://trac.haskell.org/language-java Cheers, /Niklas ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Malcolm Wallace
if I could move to darcs and preserve history I would. Search for git fastexport and darcs-fastconvert. Regards, Malcolm ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Sebastian Fischer
Maybe we can keep at least the docs without red links. Pick the Classic style in the style menu. It will remember your choice. Sebastian ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNAUNCE] ghcjs-0.1.0 Haskell to Javascript compiler

2010-10-28 Thread Victor Nazarov
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Martijn Schrage mart...@oblomov.com wrote: On 27-10-10 16:20, Victor Nazarov wrote: Very cool. I'll incorporate your changes, If you don't mind. Not at all. However, I have some minor remarks. You shouldn't override hscall function, or you may break partial

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread steffen
I think you would love to have a look at AwesomePrelude[1] or a fork of AwesomePrelude using associated types[2] Some more background information by Tom Lokhorst [3][4]. [1] http://github.com/tomlokhorst/AwesomePrelude [2] http://github.com/urso/AwesomePrelude [3]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread Dupont Corentin
This is really cool. The blog post [3] finally explained to me why I had so much difficulties implementing the Equal constructor ;) I shared this in a previous thread: http://osdir.com/ml/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/2010-06/msg00369.html Maybe latter I'll shift to a class type based DSL. They seem

[Haskell-cafe] cabal mystery (#562?)

2010-10-28 Thread Conor McBride
Hi I've just installed cabal-install (just as a user: I am nowhere near root) on our unix server at work. That went fine. Clearly, the sensible thing to do next is get hold of an up-to-date package list. So, I tried co...@cafe:~$ cabal update Downloading the latest package list from

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Test command line programs

2010-10-28 Thread Dupont Corentin
Thanks for your responses. Of course I already test every pure parts of my program easily. For now, user input is treated in 2 different ways: - direct IO with hgetLine and like functions (blocking) - the same but I directly push the strings on a TChan for another thread to treat them (not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread Emil Axelsson
2010-10-28 12:09, Dupont Corentin skrev: I'm also looking at the Atom's DSL to get inspiration. Something I don't understand in it is that it has two languages, on typed: data E a where VRef :: V a - E a Const:: a - E a Cast :: (NumE a, NumE b) = E a -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal mystery (#562?)

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Thursday 28 October 2010 15:08:09, Conor McBride wrote: So I poked about a bit, and I see it's a known issue. As a user, I'm wondering what to do. Try with HTTP-4000.0.9 instead of 4000.0.7? Just now,    wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz is chugging away

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread Ben Millwood
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, John Smith volderm...@hotmail.com wrote: On 28/10/2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: Hi haskellers. Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is the CompositionAsDot issue. I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: * Paves

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Kevin Jardine
To be fair to the Haddock designer, red links are common these days. Here's two examples (among many): http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http://www.slate.com/ In the second case the site uses blue, black *and* red links to distinguish different types of content. They are all in bold and underline when

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: If I, as the developer of the FOO Haskell package, want to move to use github, can I get a source repo under that organisation as well? I'm asking since I am considering taking some of my packages from patch-tag to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:41 AM, John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: Similarly, what's the remit of the Haskell organization on github?  Is the intention to be an umbrella for any haskell package, or more restricted?  I have the same question as Magnus (although in my case I took over something

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 15:58, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: If I, as the developer of the FOO Haskell package, want to move to use github, can I get a source repo under that organisation as well? I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: Fair enough.  Do you have enough buy-in to make sure that the github organisation becomes the best location for *all* HP packages? That is, can I stop going to Hackage to find the home for HP packages? Probably not. I

[Haskell-cafe] libffi mystery

2010-10-28 Thread Conor McBride
Hi again This is what happens when you write actual for-users for-running programs, I guess. It's been a while... I've been writing some software with Network.CGI etc, which we run on the deparmental web server for my students to use. But we just had a bit of an upgrade on the system, and now

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.orgwrote: Fair enough. Do you have enough buy-in to make sure that the github organisation becomes the best location for *all* HP packages? That is, can I stop going to Hackage to find the home for HP packages? That's never

RE: [Haskell-cafe] libffi mystery

2010-10-28 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Conor McBride wrote: Is there some way I can get some more static linking to happen? I did poke about online a bit and found some remarks to the effect that GHC got so much more portable after switching to the dynamic libffi. That sounds great, but tough luck for me. So, being both

Re: [Haskell-cafe] concurrency vs. I/O in GHC

2010-10-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 28/10/2010 09:25 AM, Erik Hesselink wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 23:09, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: GHC has a _parallel_ GC implementation, meaning that the GC event runs in parallel on several cores. But it does not (yet) have _concurrent_ GC, meaning that a GC event

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread Ryan Ingram
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Dupont Corentin corentin.dup...@gmail.com wrote: EAp :: Exp ref (a - b) - Exp ref a - Exp ref b It's from which DSL? It is accessible on the net? It's my own, just written off the top of my head as an example. Accessible on the net: yes, it's in your email.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] libffi mystery

2010-10-28 Thread Ketil Malde
Sittampalam, Ganesh ganesh.sittampa...@credit-suisse.com writes: Have you tried passing -optl-static to ghc (which causes -static to be passed to ld)? It used to be: -optl-static -optl-pthread But it doesn't seem to work anymore on my install. % ./a.out a.out:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] concurrency vs. I/O in GHC

2010-10-28 Thread Erik Hesselink
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 19:06, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: On 28/10/2010 09:25 AM, Erik Hesselink wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 23:09, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com  wrote: GHC has a _parallel_ GC implementation, meaning that the GC event runs in parallel

[Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
Today I uploaded a package to Hackage, and rediscovered something that you already know: I'm an idiot. More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And now I have a package which I've erroneously

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 28/10/2010 12:30 PM, Sebastian Fischer wrote: Maybe we can keep at least the docs without red links. Pick the Classic style in the style menu. It will remember your choice. Yes, at least with new Haddock you can *change* the style without having to actually patch (and recompile) Haddock

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
On 10/28/10 12:34 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And now I have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely the wrong category. I am glad to hear that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Don Stewart
gcross: On 10/28/10 12:34 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And now I have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely the wrong category. I am

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Status of Infrastructure questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit. [SNIP] P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Aleksandar Dimitrov
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:44:04 +0200, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted there now, away from -cafe@ Err, Why? Having to track three places

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Don Stewart
stephen.tetley: On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Status of Infrastructure questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit. [SNIP] P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Status of Infrastructure questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit. [SNIP] P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread John Millikin
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:34, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Today I uploaded a package to Hackage, and rediscovered something that you already know: I'm an idiot. More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/27/2010 10:08 AM, Günther Schmidt wrote: Dear Malcolm, since there is no mail client library even after 10+ years I suggest to rethink the approach, because frankly, it's not working. Why do you keep suggesting this? http://hackage.haskell.org/package/WashNGo There is no need for a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/27/2010 11:55 AM, Ketil Malde wrote: What does essential mean? Something a hypothetical dictator wants, but nobody else? For surely, if your email library was so essential, it'd be included among the hundreds of libraries on Hackage? Perhaps it is a lot less important than you think?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] If Python now has a good email library; how challenging is it to call Python from Haskell?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/27/2010 01:22 PM, Donn Cave wrote: Don't know, but probably challenging enough to make it worth challenging the assumption that Python now has a good email library. From a cursory look at the 3.0 library documentation, it looks to me like IMAP support still means the old imaplib module.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On 28/10/10 17:14, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.orgwrote: Fair enough. Do you have enough buy-in to make sure that the github organisation becomes the best location for *all* HP packages? That is, can I stop going to Hackage to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] If Python now has a good email library; how challenging is it to call Python from Haskell?

2010-10-28 Thread Evan Laforge
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM, John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org wrote: On 10/27/2010 01:22 PM, Donn Cave wrote: Don't know, but probably challenging enough to make it worth challenging the assumption that Python now has a good email library. From a cursory look at the 3.0 library

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear John, Am 28.10.10 23:57, schrieb John Goerzen: On 10/27/2010 10:08 AM, Günther Schmidt wrote: Dear Malcolm, since there is no mail client library even after 10+ years I suggest to rethink the approach, because frankly, it's not working. Why do you keep suggesting this?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/28/2010 05:44 PM, Günther Schmidt wrote: There is no need for a mail client library on many platforms. Just pipe the data to /usr/sbin/sendmail and poof. Done. That would work well for sending (on Unix), but not for receiving. Quite true. For receiving, we have tools like fetchmail,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 October 2010 16:48, Kevin Jardine kevinjard...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair to the Haddock designer, red links are common these days. Here's two examples (among many): http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http://www.slate.com/ In the second case the site uses blue, black *and* red links to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Lennart Augustsson
It's working just fine. I've never wanted a mail client library. :) -- Lennart 2010/10/27 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: Dear Malcolm, since there is no mail client library even after 10+ years I suggest to rethink the approach, because frankly, it's not working. Günther

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?

2010-10-28 Thread Simon Michael
On 10/27/10 1:13 AM, Dmitry V'yal wrote: Code I wrote works quite well for my purposes and I copied it into several my programs. In order to make maintenance easier I recently thought about uploading it to hackage. But given a wast amount of half-dead packages with intersecting functionality

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell meeting in Berlin

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel van den Eijkel
Hi, thanks to all participants for the funny meeting! I had a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to see you again. Best, Daniel Sönke Hahn schrieb: Hi all! There will be an informal Haskell meeting in Berlin. Date: Thursday, October 28th Time: from 20:00 Location: c-base, Rungestrasse

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear John, Am 29.10.10 01:23, schrieb John Goerzen: On 10/28/2010 05:44 PM, Günther Schmidt wrote: There is no need for a mail client library on many platforms. Just pipe the data to /usr/sbin/sendmail and poof. Done. That would work well for sending (on Unix), but not for receiving.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hello Lennart, Am 29.10.10 01:44, schrieb Lennart Augustsson: It's working just fine. I've never wanted a mail client library. :) Yes, that is wonderful, I'm really happy for you :P -- Lennart ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Peebles
There is this one posters who likes to repeatedly point out how none of his programs ever needed email, so how could it be a problem then. Well good for him, but in my experience it's needed. This is the main issue I think people had with your original posts. You say good for him, but I need

[Haskell-cafe] fundata1 -- Karmic Social Capital Benchmark and Shootout

2010-10-28 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
I am happy to announce fundata1 -- the largest-ever program per RAM allocation in Haskell, originally implemented in Clojure and then OCaml and Haskell for social network modeling. http://github.com/alexy/fundata1 It has now become the first large-scale social networking benchmark with a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] fundata1 -- Karmic Social Capital Benchmark and Shootout

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
Great stuff! I have an improvements to HashMaps that I'm working on that will hopefully work well here. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 29 October 2010 07:53, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Status of Infrastructure questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit. [SNIP]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/28/2010 07:48 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote: Would anyone be interested in a project for a full-featured mail library? I don't think I'm capable of writing the whole thing myself, but I've started a github project at URL and would be happy to collaborate in IRC channel #channel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear John, The key point is: you haven't paid any of us for this, and you have nothing even close to some sort of support contract. I perceive a sense of entitlement on your part that people owe you no-cost coding. Would you please stop perceiving this then? Because no I don't. I won't deny

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Antoine Latter
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: On 28/10/2010 12:30 PM, Sebastian Fischer wrote: Maybe we can keep at least the docs without red links. Pick the Classic style in the style menu. It will remember your choice. Yes, at least with new Haddock

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread wren ng thornton
On 10/28/10 10:42 AM, Ben Millwood wrote: Here's the wiki page: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/CompositionAsDot Personally I think function composition is what Haskell is all about and it is absolutely essential that the syntax for it be lightweight. If we think using . as

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Ertugrul Soeylemez
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 October 2010 07:53, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: P.S. I encourage people to use the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Steve Severance
2) This is a doocracy (man do I hate that word!).  If there is a problem, here's what you should do about it, in descending order of attractiveness: a) Fix it yourself b) Pay someone else to fix it c) Motivate or politely encourage others to fix it, providing moral support, etc. The key

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Jeremy Shaw
On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Günther Schmidt wrote: Dear Malcolm, since there is no mail client library even after 10+ years I suggest to rethink the approach, because frankly, it's not working. Hello! I am in charge, sorry for the delay! A number of years ago I tried to form a MIME

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread aditya siram
I understand your frustration at not having free tested libs ready-to-go, Java/any-other-mainstream-language programmers tend to expect this and usually get it. If a lack of libs is a dealbreaker for you and you want to use a functional programming language with some of Haskell's advantages (like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
Or if you want to keep the advantages of a powerful type system, you can use Scala. Cheers, Greg On 10/28/10 9:53 PM, aditya siram wrote: I understand your frustration at not having free tested libs ready-to-go, Java/any-other-mainstream-language programmers tend to expect this and usually