[Haskell-cafe] ANN: HacPhi 2011

2011-04-21 Thread wagnerdm
Greetings, I am very pleased to officially announce HacPhi 2011, a Haskell hackathon/get-together to be held July 29-31 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia supported by contributions from Amgen, Jane Street, and Microsoft Research. The hackathon will officially kick off at

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why doesn't time allow diff of localtimes ?

2010-03-30 Thread wagnerdm
Two values of LocalTime may well be computed with respect to different timezones, which makes the operation you ask for dangerous. First convert to UTCTime (with localTimeToUTC), then compare. Cheers, ~d Quoting bri...@aracnet.com: which is a variation of the question, why can't I compare

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: data-category, restricted categories

2010-03-30 Thread wagnerdm
I believe I was claiming that, in the absence of undefined, Nothing and Nothing2 *aren't* isomorphic (in the CT sense). But this is straying dangerously far from Ashley's point, which I think is a perfectly good one: Hask without bottom is friendlier than Hask with bottom. ~d Quoting Edw

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: data-category, restricted categories

2010-03-30 Thread wagnerdm
Quoting Ashley Yakeley : data Nothing I avoid explicit "undefined" in my programs, and also hopefully non-termination. Then the bottomless interpretation becomes useful, for instance, to consider Nothing as an initial object of Hask particularly when using GADTs. Forgive me if this is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: building "encoding" on Windows?

2010-03-29 Thread wagnerdm
Quoting John Lato : Packages on Hackage are *source distributions*, so users need a development environment in order to make use of them. Windows doesn't have a built-in development environment, therefore I don't see any reason why developers shouldn't choose the one most convenient to them.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] building "encoding" on Windows?

2010-03-29 Thread wagnerdm
Quoting Stephen Tetley : This is actually due to a missing header file included *by* system_encoding.h rather than Cabal not finding system_encoding.h. It took to me a while to spot that one! [note to self - always check for this in future]. The missing header is - where it originates I don't

[Haskell-cafe] building "encoding" on Windows?

2010-03-29 Thread wagnerdm
I'm trying to help a non-Haskell person build wyvern (shameless plug in case you like go: http://dmwit.com/wyvern), but (s)he's having trouble building the "encoding" library. Has any Windows person done it successfully or is willing to try it? I tried contacting the "encoding" maintainer a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is the meaning of tilde ("~") symbol

2010-02-14 Thread wagnerdm
Quoting Jake Wheat : On 14 February 2010 16:02, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: Finally, it is the array subscript operator: let x = arr ! 10 Shouldn't this be let x = arr !! 10 (!) is for arrays, (!!) is for lists. ~d ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Ha

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: wyvern, a Dragon Go Server "client"

2010-02-14 Thread wagnerdm
I've just done the first release of wyvern [1], a small program to play moves for you on the Dragon Go Server [2], along with point releases for two supporting libraries. On DGS, people play many games of go simultaneously, making only one move per day in each game (about). A commonly reque