Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

2011-06-04 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com [2011-06-03 18:12:04+0100] On 03/06/2011 05:02 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: I propose that only {- -} is comment; that is, -- is an operator token and not a marker of comments. I'm curious to know why anybody thought that -- was a good comment

[Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Tillmann Vogt
Hi, There are some categories on Hackage that have become so large that it is hard to find something, i.e. Data(414 packages) and Graphics (191). Thats why I suggest to use subcategories separated from the category with a dot. To show that this makes sense I made subcategories for graphics

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

2011-06-04 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Roman Cheplyaka r...@ro-che.info writes: * Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com [2011-06-03 18:12:04+0100] On 03/06/2011 05:02 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: I propose that only {- -} is comment; that is, -- is an operator token and not a marker of comments. I'm curious to know why

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Vo Minh Thu
2011/6/4 Tillmann Vogt tillmann.v...@rwth-aachen.de: Hi, There are some categories on Hackage that have become so large that it is hard to find something, i.e. Data(414 packages) and Graphics (191). Thats why I suggest to use subcategories separated from the category with a dot. To show that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] *GROUP HUG*

2011-06-04 Thread Yves Parès
From from what I see here, Haskell at work seems to target web development. I should try this soon... What is everyone using? Yesod? 2011/6/4 Michael Xavier nemesisdes...@gmail.com I just wanted to echo this a bit. I'm a Ruby on Rails developer in my day job. While I still enjoy ruby, I was

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Yves Parès
Why not hierarchical tags? (Tags organized in directories, well, basically, tags with slashes or dots) This is the most flexible IMHO. 2011/6/4 Vo Minh Thu not...@gmail.com 2011/6/4 Tillmann Vogt tillmann.v...@rwth-aachen.de: Hi, There are some categories on Hackage that have become so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problem with linker

2011-06-04 Thread Alejandro Serrano Mena
No, it does not report any problem. 2011/6/4 Clint Moore cl...@ivy.io On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 01:17:03AM +0200, Alejandro Serrano Mena wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use Hoogle as a library in my Summer of Code project. But when I try to compile using Cabal, I get the following error:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problem with linker

2011-06-04 Thread Alejandro Serrano Mena
I'm using the last Haskell Platform available in Arch Linux, with GHC 7.0.2 and Cabal 1.10.1.0 (the last one). The problem is not installing Hoogle, because it builds and works correctly, but linking with the library Hoogle provides. 2011/6/4 Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 3,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Tillmann Vogt
Am 04.06.2011 11:08, schrieb Vo Minh Thu: 2011/6/4 Tillmann Vogttillmann.v...@rwth-aachen.de: Hi, There are some categories on Hackage that have become so large that it is hard to find something, i.e. Data(414 packages) and Graphics (191). Thats why I suggest to use subcategories separated

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 4 June 2011 10:42, Tillmann Vogt tillmann.v...@rwth-aachen.de wrote: Well, what is the difference between a tag and a category? The second sounds more mathematical. Although it doesn't exist (yet), tags would support a filtering view. As for categories, I'll be the first to play the joker

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: unordered-container 0.1.3.0

2011-06-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Johan, Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 23:02 +0200 schrieb Johan Tibell: I've just uploaded a new version of the unordered-containers package, a package of fast hashing-based container types. I was looking into using HashMap in a tool for the Debian Haskell Group that currently uses a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Sebastian Fischer
http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Tillmann Vogt tillmann.v...@rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, There are some categories on Hackage that have become so large that it is hard to find something, i.e. Data(414 packages) and Graphics (191). Thats

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: unordered-container 0.1.3.0

2011-06-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 04.06.2011, 14:23 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: I was looking into using HashMap in a tool for the Debian Haskell Group that currently uses a somewhat large Map, but I found some functions missing that I was using: * unions * element * unionWith * mapWithKey here

Re: [Haskell-cafe] *GROUP HUG*

2011-06-04 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 10:03 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: Gresham's law states roughly that bad money drives out good. I thus propose a corollary: bad languages drive out good. That's not entirely true - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law. which states that when government compulsorily

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Tillmann Vogt
Am 04.06.2011 15:00, schrieb Sebastian Fischer: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html I think I have read that article a long time ago. I just looked at it again. Very lengthy but true. In the middle there is a section when ontologies work well and ... it all applies to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

2011-06-04 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 11-06-04 02:20 AM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote: It is, for my taste, a good comment marker, because of its resemblance to a dash. It makes the code look like real text: let y = x + 1 -- increment x COBOL is real text, if that is what you want. ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

2011-06-04 Thread Yves Parès
*Touché.* Nice one. 2011/6/4 Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net On 11-06-04 02:20 AM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote: It is, for my taste, a good comment marker, because of its resemblance to a dash. It makes the code look like real text: let y = x + 1 -- increment x COBOL is real text, if that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: unordered-container 0.1.3.0

2011-06-04 Thread Johan Tibell
Hi Joachim, On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Hi Johan, Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 23:02 +0200 schrieb Johan Tibell: I've just uploaded a new version of the unordered-containers package, a package of fast hashing-based container types. I was

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: mecha-0.0.5

2011-06-04 Thread Tom Hawkins
Mecha [1,2,3] is a constructive solid modeling DSL. I haven't worked on Mecha in awhile, so this release just contains some minor cleanup and reorganization. My next step is to build an OpenGL interactive visualization tool, something like a basic CAD window to rotate and zoom around 3D models.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] *GROUP HUG*

2011-06-04 Thread Ertugrul Soeylemez
Yves Parès limestr...@gmail.com wrote: From from what I see here, Haskell at work seems to target web development. I should try this soon... That's one of the main use cases for Haskell in real world projects (in my opinion). However, I also use Haskell for network servers. What is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Tillmann Vogt tillmann.v...@rwth-aachen.de wrote: Formal categories   already exist, just need some improvement I don't see how the categories we have are near formal categories, but I digress.  Stable entities         Haskell is a mathematical language, and if

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread wren ng thornton
On 6/4/11 9:41 AM, Tillmann Vogt wrote: Am 04.06.2011 15:00, schrieb Sebastian Fischer: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html I think I have read that article a long time ago. I just looked at it again. Very lengthy but true. In the middle there is a section when ontologies

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: mecha-0.0.5

2011-06-04 Thread Corey O'Connor
If the purpose is just to visualize the model then there are easier ways to do so that generating a polygonal representation and rendering that. See these for more info: * http://www.opencsg.org/ * http://www.nigels.com/research/ -Corey O'Connor coreyocon...@gmail.com http://corebotllc.com/

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-04 Thread Evan Laforge
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr: I don't think ontologies are suitable for Hackage. I think I agree. For instance, I just uploaded fix-imports and had to decide which categories it is in. It manages imports, which is IDE-like and people