[Haskell-cafe] Proof that Haskell is RT

2008-11-12 Thread Andrew Birkett
Hi, Is a formal proof that the Haskell language is referentially transparent? Many people state haskell is RT without backing up that claim. I know that, in practice, I can't write any counter-examples but that's a bit handy-wavy. Is there a formal proof that, for all possible haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proof that Haskell is RT

2008-11-12 Thread Andrew Birkett
Edsko de Vries wrote: See What is a purely functional language by Sabry. Not quite a formal proof about *Haskell*, but then we would first need a formal semantics of Haskell to be able to do that proof ;-) Thanks for the reference, and also to everyone who replied - all very useful and

[Haskell-cafe] Yi editor tutorial

2008-01-13 Thread Andrew Birkett
Hi, I've recently started using Yi, the haskell editor. I found it slightly non-trivial to get started, so I've written up my installation method and a beginners guide tutorial which I hope will be of interest to other people who'd like to try Yi. It lives at: