Re: [Haskell-cafe] Newbie question about using WinGHCi

2010-06-30 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 1 July 2010 16:04, Christopher Tauss wrote: > Hello - > > I just a day or so ago downloaded Hakell and am playing around with it, and > I came upon this problem with WinGHCi: > > I am able to enter a multi-line "do" statement that works if I use brackets > and semi-colon like so: > > Prelude> :

[Haskell-cafe] Newbie question about using WinGHCi

2010-06-30 Thread Christopher Tauss
Hello - I just a day or so ago downloaded Hakell and am playing around with it, and I came upon this problem with WinGHCi: I am able to enter a multi-line "do" statement that works if I use brackets and semi-colon like so: Prelude> :{ Prelude| let main2 = do { Prelude| putStrLn "Please enter you

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

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Wawrzynczak
If anyone wants to see the popularity of their particular package(s), dons has kindly left a .txt file with the information at the following URL: http://code.haskell.org/~dons/hackage/Jun-2010/popular.txt . Of course, this being Haskell, I had to whip up a little script to get the information for

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

2010-06-30 Thread Don Stewart
Downloads and popular packages on Hackage for Q1 and Q2 this year. http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/popular-haskell-packages-q2-2010-report/ -- Don ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec combinator like Prolog's cut operator?

2010-06-30 Thread Andrew Coppin
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >From the Polyparse homepage (http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/polyparse/): , | If you are familiar with the Parsec library, then the key insight for | using PolyParse is that the two libraries' approach to backtracking | are the duals of each another. In Parsec, you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: HaRe, the Haskell Refactorer 0.6

2010-06-30 Thread Chris BROWN
>> > > Doesn't that mean that hare requires also type information? > Even though haskell-src-exts is impressive, I doubt it comes with a > typechecker for GHC Haskell. HaRe does require a type checker, but we use hint for that, not Programmatica. So haskell-src-exts shouldn't interfere... bu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers

2010-06-30 Thread Don Stewart
paul: > I'm starting to see job adverts mentioning Haskell as a "nice to have", > and even in some cases as a technology to work with. > > However right now I'm looking at it from the other side. Suppose > someone wants to hire a Haskell developer or three. How easy is this? > I'd apprecia

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers

2010-06-30 Thread Serguey Zefirov
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> I'm starting to see job adverts mentioning Haskell as a "nice to have", and >> even in some cases as a technology to work with. >> >> However right now I'm looking at it from the other side.  Suppose someone >> wants to hire a Haskell devel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers

2010-06-30 Thread Felipe Lessa
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm starting to see job adverts mentioning Haskell as a "nice to have", and > even in some cases as a technology to work with. > > However right now I'm looking at it from the other side.  Suppose someone > wants to hire a Haskell developer or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: HaRe, the Haskell Refactorer 0.6

2010-06-30 Thread José Iborra
On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:51 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > Chris BROWN writes: > >> On 29 Jun 2010, at 15:55, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >>> I talked with you and Simon Thompson about this at PEPM, and at the time >>> you said that haskell-src-exts didn't have what you needed for HaRe. >>>

[Haskell-cafe] How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers

2010-06-30 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm starting to see job adverts mentioning Haskell as a "nice to have", and even in some cases as a technology to work with. However right now I'm looking at it from the other side. Suppose someone wants to hire a Haskell developer or three. How easy is this? I'd appreciate replies from peo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] zlib or digest package installation

2010-06-30 Thread Tillmann Rendel
Hi Daniel, Daniel Kahlenberg wrote: when installing pandoc package, which has digest somewhere in dependencies the usual cabal install stucks because zlib.h is missing [...] I had a similar or the same problem with digest and zlib.h two months ago, which I reported to the Haskell platform tr

[Haskell-cafe] dirs in Emacs/Vim in Cabal

2010-06-30 Thread Chris BROWN
Dear Haskellers, I am in the process of creating a cabal HaRe and I have run into a minor problem. I have an emacs and a vim script that HaRe uses to invoke the refactorer from the two editors. In those scripts, I point HaRe to a directory containing some libraries it needs to chase the imports

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Bangalore

2010-06-30 Thread Amiruddin Nagri
I have too faced situation like Martin but haven't given up I stay near egl. Please let me know when you guys are planning to meet Amir On Jun 29, 2010 10:00 AM, "Lakshmi Narasimhan" wrote: Wow! great to see Haskellers from B'lore. I'll be interested too. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:00

[Haskell-cafe] Kate: Haskell and Literate Haskell syntax files

2010-06-30 Thread Nicolas Wu
Dear all, I've just finished implementing a complete rewrite of the Haskell and Literate Haskell files for Kate. This improves the previous version in many ways: * Operators are now supported (++, !, >>=, and any other combination of legal operator characters) * Special symbols are recognised (=>

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: HaRe, the Haskell Refactorer 0.6

2010-06-30 Thread Chris BROWN
>> > > The Annotated part of haskell-src-exts provides this I think: > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/haskell-src-exts/1.9.0/doc/html/Language-Haskell-Exts-Annotated.html > Thanks, Ivan, I'll take a look at this. I wonder if would be possible to write a mapping for haskell-exts-an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec combinator like Prolog's cut operator?

2010-06-30 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Stephen Tetley wrote: > Malcolm Wallace describes a commit combinator in the paper "Partial > parsing: combining choice with commitment" which sounds like what you > would want. It is implemented for Polyparse rather than Parsec though. Yes, I can see how that might help on some kinds of data. Th

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Second draft of the Haskell 2010 report available

2010-06-30 Thread Simon Marlow
On 29/06/2010 23:31, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:01:54 +0200, Simon Marlow wrote: Comments on the draft report are welcome, before I finalise this and sign off on Haskell 2010. Subsection 12.3, "Language extensions", mentions the FFI as a language extension, but FFI is no

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec combinator like Prolog's cut operator?

2010-06-30 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Stephen Tetley writes: > Hi Erik > > Malcolm Wallace describes a commit combinator in the paper "Partial > parsing: combining choice with commitment" which sounds like what you > would want. It is implemented for Polyparse rather than Parsec though. > From a quick scan of the paper and code, the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec combinator like Prolog's cut operator?

2010-06-30 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hi Erik Malcolm Wallace describes a commit combinator in the paper "Partial parsing: combining choice with commitment" which sounds like what you would want. It is implemented for Polyparse rather than Parsec though. >From a quick scan of the paper and code, the implementation appears to be built