Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: help getting happy

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Brown
On 9/13/07, Greg Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers. i solved the problem before i saw your email. The Happy i got was a result of invoking port install happy What's the drift between macports and happy versions? Is there a way of using Happy without being on or even near the cutting

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Do you trust Wikipedia?

2007-10-19 Thread Paul Brown
On 10/17/07, PR Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you trust mathematical materials on Wikipedia? I trust most of them to not be wrong, but I don't trust them to be right. Mathematical concepts are bit like binary search -- getting the flavor right isn't that difficult, but being concise,

[Haskell-cafe] ANN / CFC: minimalistic haskell blogging web application (perpubplat)

2008-01-04 Thread Paul Brown
All -- I've spent some time on cleaning up my hobby blog publishing software and setting up a darcs repository, so I'll throw it out there for criticism or suggestions: darcs get http://datapr0n.com/repos/perpubplat It's running my blog (http://mult.ifario.us). It's relatively lightweight in

[Haskell-cafe] split string into n parts

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Brown
I want to split a string into 5 parts of equal length, with the last fifth padded if necessary, but can't get it right - here's what I've got - fifths :: String - String fifths s = fifths' 0 s where l = (length s) `div` 5 [... snip ...] Any thoughts? Thanks! This isn't homework BTW, I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Solitaire cipher

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Brown
I brute-forced my way through a solution to the Solitaire cipher quiz challenge last night: http://mult.ifario.us/articles/2006/10/25/solitaire-cipher-in-haskell Full source is linked from the entry, or look here: http://mult.ifario.us/files/solitaire.hs I think (i.e., know) that my

[Haskell-cafe] Secret Santas in Haskell / better data structure?

2006-12-23 Thread Paul Brown
Cafe Crew -- I posted my simple-but-slow solution to Ruby Quiz problem #2: http://mult.ifario.us/articles/2006/12/22/secret-santas-in-haskell-iii-collect-reap-repeat (Or http://tinyurl.com/y3l2re if your mail client messes up the URL...) It's more than practically fast enough unless you have,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Brown
On 1/28/07, Alexy Khrabrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do people stumble on Haskell? I came at it from two angles: General interest in actor languages led me to Io (http://www.iolanguage.com), which used Darcs for its RCS at the time, which led me to look at the source code for it, which got

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: problems installing ghc 6.6 with extralibs (bad interface file)

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Brown
On 2/27/07, Seth Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Hartman wrote: Thanks. I incorporated these changes, and it cranks longer now before failing. But still fails, now with a seg fault. According to conventional wisdom, when gcc segfaults on a big compilation job (e.g., the Linux kernel),

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Web server libraries

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Brown
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:26 PM, John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I really want is some sort of simple tool that supports FastCGI or some such, has basic support for form data input validation and marshalling to/from Haskell types, and basic control flow. So I've looked around a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HTTP client libraries

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Brown
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:08 PM, John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Bjorn's String-based HTTP It eats RAM. Does not appear to read data lazily, returns a String, and may have a memory leak as well. Does not appear to be suited for anything except very small file downloads. Do

[Haskell-cafe] Re: HXT 7.4/7.5 leaking TCP connections

2008-04-08 Thread Paul Brown
Hi, Bjorn and Uwe -- this is a known problem with HTTP package (version 3001.0.4). Paul Brown has described this somewere in his blog. (http://mult.ifario.us/t/haskell), but my firefox only shows an incomplete page of this blog, the solution is missing. Paul promissed in his

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The state of database libraries

2008-07-06 Thread Paul Brown
On Jul 4, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Chris Eidhof wrote: 1. hdbc. I'd like to connect to MySQL, so I need the ODBC backend. I couldn't get this to work under OS X, while I installed myodbc, which seems to be broken. FWIW, I've had good luck with the SQLite3 bindings for HDBC on MacOS X. I had a

[Haskell-cafe] definitive list of editline bindings anywhere?

2008-11-28 Thread Paul Brown
All -- Anyone have a definitive list of editline keybindings available? I find myself missing some of the capabilities of readline, and there doesn't seem to be documentation. -- Paul ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and a new web developement mailinglist?

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Brown
On 3/20/07, David House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/03/07, Marc Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been talking to Chris Eidhof the last days and we'd like to suggest adding another specialized haskell mailinglist: Haskell and web developement. I'd love to contribute here. You should be