Re: [Haskell-cafe] I Need a Better Functional Language!

2012-04-06 Thread Matthew Farkas-Dyck
On 05/04/2012, Grigory Sarnitskiy wrote: > One could expect from a language that bears 'functional' as its > characteristic to be able to do everything imaginable with functions. > However, the only thing Haskell can do with functions is to apply them to > arguments and to feed them as arguments,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installing REPA

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Wong
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Dominic Steinitz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install REPA but getting the following. Do I just install > base? Or is it more complicated than that? > > Thanks, Dominic. I think the easiest solution is to just use an older version of Repa. According to Hackage, t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installing REPA

2012-04-06 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Dominic Steinitz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install REPA but getting the following. Do I just install > base? The only "safe" way to upgrade base is to upgrade GHC -- I'm not sure which ghc has base-4.4 though (Based on Dmitry's comment, maybe 7.2?) --Rogan >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installing REPA

2012-04-06 Thread Dmitry Dzhus
06.04.2012, 18:02, "Dominic Steinitz" : > cabal: cannot configure repa-2.2.0.1. It requires base ==4.4.* > > Tests-MacBook-Pro:PDE Test$ ghc --version > The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.0.3 I think this might be because base-4.3 was shipped with GHC 7.0 series: http://w

[Haskell-cafe] Installing REPA

2012-04-06 Thread Dominic Steinitz
Hi, I'm trying to install REPA but getting the following. Do I just install base? Or is it more complicated than that? Thanks, Dominic. Tests-MacBook-Pro:PDE Test$ cabal install repa Resolving dependencies... cabal: cannot configure repa-2.2.0.1. It requires base ==4.4.* For the dependency on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Google Summer of Code - Lock-free data structures

2012-04-06 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Ben wrote: perhaps it is too late to suggest things for GSOC -- but stephen tetley on a different thread pointed at aaron turon's work, which there's a very interesting new concurrency framework he calls "reagents" which seems to give the best of all worlds : it is declarative and compositional