[Haskell-cafe] haddock changes between 2.10 and 2.12?

2012-09-24 Thread Edward Kmett
Was there some significant change/bug introduced to haddock made between 2.10 and 2.12? When I look at the haddocks for kan-extensions 3.1: Data.Functor.Yonedahttp://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/kan-extensions/3.1/doc/html/Data-Functor-Yoneda.html which purports to have been built by

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Partial statical linking

2012-09-24 Thread Jason Dusek
2012/9/19 Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote: What I attempted was building a binary with only some C libraries statically linked, with this command line: # Build https://github.com/erudify/sssp on Ubunut 12.04

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs on Windows 7

2012-09-24 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Vasili I. Galchin wrote: Hello Haskellers, I installed darcs on a Windows 7 machine. A darcs folder was created under Program Files(x86) folder. However, when I pull up Program... on the left side, darcs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs on Windows 7

2012-09-24 Thread Alp Mestanogullari
I have tested it a long time ago. It worked fine. However, when I need to use darcs on Windows 7 now, I just use the CLI, I don't really need more. On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.orgwrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for discussion: OverloadedLists extension

2012-09-24 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:53 PM, George Giorgidze giorgi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, Here at the University of Tübingen, I am co-supervising (together with Jeroen Weijers) a student project implementing the OverloadedLists extension for GHC. Achim Krause is the student who is working on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Organizaing tests in Haskell

2012-09-24 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Simon Hengel wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 06:11:59PM +0200, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: How do I access internal modules with cabal test , though? Last time I tried, I could not find a way to expose in the test section of the cabal file. It works, if you add the source directory to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for discussion: OverloadedLists extension

2012-09-24 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Roman Cheplyaka wrote: * Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de [2012-09-23 10:51:26+0200] Unfortunately, making literals polymorphic does not always achieve the desired effect of reducing syntax. In fact, they can instead increase syntax! In other words, I would like to point out that

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: New wiki page and mailing list for combinatorics and Haskell

2012-09-24 Thread Brent Yorgey
Quite a while ago there was a mailing list thread where the idea was brought up of creating a mailing list for those interested in combinatorics in the setting of Haskell. Well, I've finally gotten around to it. If you're interested in (probably extremely low-traffic) discussion and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Partial statical linking

2012-09-24 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure why that happens -- libgcc.a wasn't explicitly asked for; but it stands to reason that one shouldn't specify No, but it's required for anything that uses the C compiler (which in this case would be glibc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Getting started with Shake

2012-09-24 Thread Evan Laforge
With shake I'm not sure exactly how to get started. Should I have a separate project where I create the build system for the webapp? Or can I setup something similar to sbt? Also, how do I handle dependencies with shake? cabal will pull in packages from hackage and do the needful, is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for discussion: OverloadedLists extension

2012-09-24 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
Michael Snoyman wrote: The simplest example I can think of is allowing easier usage of Vector: [1, 2, 3] :: Vector Int In order to allow this, we could use a typeclass approach similar to how OverloadedStrings works: class IsList a where fromList :: [b] - a b

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for discussion: OverloadedLists extension

2012-09-24 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Many of us use the OverloadedStrings language extension on a regular | basis. It provides the ability to keep the ease-of-use of string | literal syntax, while getting the performance and correctness | advantages of specialized datatypes like ByteString and Text. I think | we can get the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for discussion: OverloadedLists extension

2012-09-24 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| I remember a similar discussion a few years ago. The question of whether | or not overloading list literals a good idea notwithstanding, the problem | with this is that fromList for vectors is highly inefficient. So if | something like this gets implemented and if vector/array literals are

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Well-Typed and Skills Matter offer Haskell courses in London in October

2012-09-24 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Hi Andres, list, On 19/09/12 09:41, Andres Löh wrote: Oops, I hit send too prematurely, sorry for the seeming bluntness (but it is still a blunt message, can't apologize for that I suppose): No need to apologize. There's a need for informal meetings as much (or even more) as there is for