Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambda-case / lambda-if

2010-10-06 Thread Matthew Gruen
On 10/2/10, Christopher Done wrote: > On 2 October 2010 20:23, Max Bolingbroke wrote: >> Do you like this feature and think it would be worth incorporating >> this into GHC? Or is it too specialised to be of use? If there is >> enough support, I'll create a ticket and see what GHC HQ make of it.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] MState: A consistent State monad for concurrent applications

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Nils Schweinsberg wrote: > And here wo go. MState on hackage: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mstate > > My first hackage library. :) Awesome. I needed something like that once, too, down to the same type signature for the fork function. Here's an instance f

Re: [Haskell-cafe] gd on Win32

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Gruen
On 7/2/10, Christopher Done wrote: > On 2 July 2010 20:00, Jason Felice wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> The listed maintainer for gd is no longer maintaining it. I'm wondering >> if >> anyone else is, if there is a version control URL, and how I can send >> patches. I need to get it working for Win32. >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] State of the Hackage: Q1, Q2 2010

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Bas van Dijk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Don Stewart wrote: >> I think we need to standardise the presentation of this data, and >> provide a lib to access it. > > This, together with reverse dependencies[1], would be a nice feature > for the upcoming

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Matthew Gruen
The proposal as I submitted it is here: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=0Afa5MxwyB_zYZGhjanNrdjNfMjkzZjloOWNienY&pageview=1&hgd=1&hl=en And it might need further revision as I talk to Duncan and the community. The advanced social features wouldn't get deployed by the end of the summer, but by t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Job Vranish wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Malcolm Wallace > wrote: >> How much cooler it would be, if the wiki-like comment on Hackage could >> automatically be converted into a darcs/git/whatever patch, and mailed to >> the package author/maintain

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-08 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Antoine Latter wrote: > One thing in the branch over in http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server >  is the ability for package maintainers to upload documentation to the > server. This way we're not tying the ability of the server doing a > build-check to the ability

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-08 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > I guess 'works also with B in version X.Y.Z' is also. Most of the above > changes should not be IMHO in cabal (sorry for answering PS here). > Especially 'not maintained anymore' and 'does not build on recent > GHC' ;) > > > > As we are wi

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-07 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Matthew Gruen wrote: > Hi Haskellers, > > Oh, heh, I apologize if that was more of a wall of text than I had realized. The above wasn't a project proposal itself, more the result of some brainstorming and some research. If you have the time t

[Haskell-cafe] GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-06 Thread Matthew Gruen
Hi Haskellers, I'm Matt Gruen (Gracenotes in #haskell), and the Hackage 2.0 SoC project at really piqued my interest. It seems doable, in a summer, to make the new hackage-server more-than-deployment-ready as well as clearing out some it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is () a 0-length tuple?

2009-11-08 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: > What point are you trying to make by distinguishing JSON from > JavaScript? JSON is a subset of JavaScript, they share the same type > system. "Null can be only one value." This doesn't make sense to me, > since as you say null is not a type, bu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is () a 0-length tuple?

2009-11-07 Thread Matthew Gruen
Forgot to cc haskell-cafe. Trying again: -- Forwarded message -- From: Matthew Gruen Date: Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is () a 0-length tuple? To: Pasqualino Titto Assini On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Pasqualino "Titto" Assini wrote: &g

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Converting IO [XmlTree] to [XmlTree]

2009-04-28 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Martijn van Steenbergen < mart...@van.steenbergen.nl> wrote: > > They are in order of power: every monad is an applicative; every > applicative is a functor; every functor is pointed. > > Though I can't think of any non-functor pointiness at the moment. > > Martijn