Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell-beginners] For class Monoid; better names than mempty & mappend might have been: mid (mident) & mbinop

2011-07-24 Thread Julian Porter
On 24 Jul 2011, at 19:19, KC wrote: > I like the following but again "+" denotes addition and not a general > binary operation. > > >> I personally often define the alias: >> >> (<+>) = mappend > > A lot of math books use "+" or "x" enclosed in a circle to indicate > that the usual meaning o

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cloud Haskell

2011-07-23 Thread Julian Porter
iences. J Julian Porter julian.por...@porternet.org http://www.porternet.org On 23 Jul 2011, at 11:03, Tim Cowlishaw wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Tom Murphy wrote: > >> Is anyone using Cloud Haskell yet? I'm really excited by the >> possibilities. > >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Lisp Curse

2011-05-19 Thread Julian Porter
> ultimately the ideal is to end up with one library that solves the problem > well, which everybody can use. > > Nonsense. One library that everyone can use with either end up being so small in functionality that it's actually useless, or so general that either it requires tons and tons of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problems with haskell98 package in GHC

2011-04-05 Thread Julian Porter
> > Looks like you've done a global install and thus have overwritten the > original. I'm afraid that means you have to reinstall GHC, I know of no way > to fix it. Thank you for the explanation. Fortunately, the old version was still there in its own folder, so was able to unregister the new

[Haskell-cafe] Problems with haskell98 package in GHC

2011-04-05 Thread Julian Porter
iling code led to this error message: Bad interface file: /usr/local/lib/haskell98-1.1.0.1/ghc-6.12.3/IO.hi Something is amiss; requested module haskell98:IO differs from name found in the interface file haskell98-1.1.0.1:IO I'm running GHC version 6.12.3. Any help much appreciated