Re: [Haskell-cafe] compare lengths of lists lazily

2011-12-19 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 19.12.2011 19:29, Henning Thielemann wrote: Shortest and most obfuscating solution I found is: import Data.Ord (comparing) import Control.Applicative (($)) compareLength :: [a] - [a] - Ordering compareLength = comparing (()$) comparingLength = comparing void It's two character shorter

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to get a file path to the program invoked?

2011-12-01 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 01.12.2011 23:47, dokondr wrote: To be precise, $0 always contains the path to the program called. You are right, this path will change depending on location from which the program was called. So $0 is OK for my case, while current directory is unrelated. Actually it contains whatever was

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is there any way to parametrize a value update using record syntax?

2011-09-06 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 07.09.2011 00:56, Brandon Allbery wrote: 2011/9/6 Poprádi Árpád popradi_ar...@freemail.hu mailto:popradi_ar...@freemail.hu updateData1 :: X - MonadicEnv() updateData1 d = do; env - get; put env {data1 = d} updateData1 d = modify (\r - r {data1 = d}) But there is, sadly, no

Re: [Haskell-cafe] strictness properties of monoidal folds

2011-08-03 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 02.08.2011 08:16, Sebastian Fischer wrote: Data.Foldable also provides the monoidal fold function foldMap. It is left unspecified whether the elements are accumulated leftwards, rightwards or in some other way, which is possible because the combining function is required to be associative.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] pointer equality

2011-07-21 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Any examples for hangups of 'smartEq' are greatly appreciated, I couldn't produce any so far. Following sequences will hang smartEq. They are both infinite and aperiodic. smartEq (fromList primes) (fromList primes) smartEq (fromList pidigits) (fromList pidigits)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Patterns for processing large but finite streams

2011-07-01 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Eugene Kirpichov ekirpic...@gmail.com wrote: I meant the average of the whole list - given a sumS and lengthS (S for Stream), write meanS as something like liftS2 (/) sumS lengthS. Or is that possible with lazy lists too? Sure you can. Sum, length and mean

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Patterns for processing large but finite streams

2011-07-01 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Eugene Kirpichov ekirpic...@gmail.com wrote: Alexey, your definition of mean does not look like liftS2 (/) sum length - you have to manually fuse these computations. Well it was fused for numerical stability I'm asking for a formalism that does this fusion

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why aren't there anonymous sum types in Haskell?

2011-06-21 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 22.06.2011 00:32, pipoca wrote: On Jun 21, 4:15 pm, Alexander Sollaalex.so...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that a sum type must name the different types, or else it can't give access to them. How is a function supposed to know if a value blah :: A :+: B is an A or a B? It seems

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Generating simple histograms in png format?

2011-06-12 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 11.06.2011 02:02, Dmitri O.Kondratiev wrote: I am looking for platform-independent library to generate simple histograms in png format. Does such thing exist? You may give chart[1,2] a try if dependency on cairo is acceptable. It can generate PNG among other options. [1]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Plug space leak with seq. How?

2011-06-10 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
forever a = a forever a doesn't tie to itself without optimisations, so my guess is that it gets expanded when you run/eval/execState it in ghci, building the thunk a a a a ... If you define forever' a = let a' = a a' in a' the variant using forever' runs in constant space in ghci.

[Haskell-cafe] Plug space leak with seq. How?

2011-06-09 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Hello café! This mail is literate haskell I have some difficulties with understanding how bang patterns and seq works. {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Control.Monad import Control.Monad.Trans.State.Strict leak :: State Int () leak = do a - get put (a+1) leak This function

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Plug space leak with seq. How?

2011-06-09 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 09.06.2011 20:09, Yves Parès wrote: Is it not: noLeak :: State Int () noLeak = do a - get ** *let a' = (a + 1) a' `seq` put a'* noLeak ?? Indeed. Now I understand. It didn't work for me earlier because of different behavior of 'forever' in ghci and compiled code. This

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: quickcheck-properties

2011-05-30 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 30.05.2011 12:26, Bas van Dijk wrote: On 30 May 2011 00:14, Alexey Khudyakovalexey.sklad...@gmail.com wrote: It always puzzled me why there are no packages for for testing general type classes laws. (Monoid laws, monad laws etc). It looks like ideal case for quickcheck and smallcheck. How

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: quickcheck-properties

2011-05-30 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 30.05.2011 14:45, Henning Thielemann wrote: Alexey Khudyakov schrieb: On 30.05.2011 12:26, Bas van Dijk wrote: How about 'checkers' by Conal Elliott: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/checkers We really need better search on hackage than C-f in browser. I didn't find them. Thank you

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: quickcheck-properties

2011-05-29 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Hello It always puzzled me why there are no packages for for testing general type classes laws. (Monoid laws, monad laws etc). It looks like ideal case for quickcheck and smallcheck. I'm glad to present package quickcheck-properties[1]. It containt set of generic properties for semiroups,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Exception for NaN

2011-05-16 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 16.05.2011 22:51, Casey McCann wrote: How so? Equality on floating point values other than NaN works just fine and behaves as expected. It's just that they violate all sorts of algebraic laws when arithmetic is involved so sequences of operations that should be equivalent aren't, in ways that

[Haskell-cafe] Reformatter for Show

2011-05-02 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Hello everyone! Haskell have nice automatically derivable Show type class. It's quite useful for debugging with one exception. String representation of even moderately large value is completely unreadable (example below). My question is there any tool for reformatting result of show so it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reformatter for Show

2011-05-02 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 03.05.2011 00:43, Antoine Latter wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! Haskell have nice automatically derivable Show type class. It's quite useful for debugging with one exception. String representation of even moderately

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Binary and Serialize classes

2011-04-28 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Speaking of that Double instance... both data-binary and cereal use decodeFloat and encodeFloat which mean they suffer from the same problems as realToFrac, namely that -0 becomes 0 and NaN becomes -Infinity (I'm not sure why the latter happens since the decoded values differ... must be a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Synthetic values?

2011-02-09 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 09.02.2011 20:57, Chris Smith wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 18:15 +0100, Cristiano Paris wrote: I've a type problem that I cannot solve and, before I keep banging my head against an unbreakable wall, I'd like to discuss it with the list. If I'm understanding your high-level goals correctly,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Synthetic values?

2011-02-09 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 09.02.2011 20:15, Cristiano Paris wrote: Now the problem. I would like to enforce permissions not at the role level, but at the permissions level. Let's say that I want to leave unseal unchanged, I'd like to construct a p-value for unseal combining functions checking for single permissions,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Synthetic values?

2011-02-09 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 09.02.2011 23:16, Cristiano Paris wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 19:33, Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com wrote: ... If Private is not exported one cannot add instances to PRead. Nice trick. I would have thought of hiding the classes PRead and PWrite but I'm not sure if it could

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Byte Histogram

2011-02-06 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 06.02.2011 23:29, Johan Tibell wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: In particular, I get strange looks from people in the OOP community when I say I'm using a language that doesn't have any abstractions at all for dealing polymorphically

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Byte Histogram

2011-02-06 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 07.02.2011 00:37, Johan Tibell wrote: Also there is a container-classes package which provide set of type class for containers. I'd like to avoid MPTC and fundeps if possible. I think haskell2010's type system is just not expressive enough to create interface generic enough. It's not

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Rigid types fun

2010-11-05 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 05.11.2010 14:08, Mitar wrote: So I know I can move some hard-coded combination into a function. But I would like to cover all combinations and tell with arguments which combination I want. I'm not sure what do you exactly want. But what about applicative functors? They offer nice notation

Re: [Haskell-cafe] vector-space and standard API for vectors

2010-11-05 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
We already know that there are noncommutative modules/vectorspaces of interest (e.g., modules over quaternions and modules over graph paths), why not support them from the beginning? It seems like you're going out of your way to exclude things that would be trivial to include. This is exactly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] vector-space and standard API for vectors

2010-10-31 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Henning Thielemann schlepp...@henning-thielemann.de wrote: wren ng thornton schrieb: On 10/22/10 8:46 AM, Alexey Khudyakov wrote: Hello everyone! It's well known that Num Co type classes are not adequate for vectors (I don't mean arrays). I have an idea how

Re: [Haskell-cafe] vector-space and standard API for vectors

2010-10-31 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:53 AM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: On 10/26/10 8:51 AM, Alexey Khudyakov wrote: On 24.10.2010 03:38, wren ng thornton wrote: I don't care much about the name of the class, I'd just like support for monoids, semirings,... when they lack a group, ring

Re: [Haskell-cafe] vector-space and standard API for vectors

2010-10-26 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 24.10.2010 03:38, wren ng thornton wrote: On 10/23/10 4:53 PM, Alexey Khudyakov wrote: On 23.10.2010 05:11, wren ng thornton wrote: I'd rather see, class Additive v where -- or AdditiveMonoid, if preferred zeroV :: v (^+^) :: v - v - v class Additive v = AdditiveGroup v where negateV :: v

Re: [Haskell-cafe] vector-space and standard API for vectors

2010-10-23 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 23.10.2010 05:11, wren ng thornton wrote: On 10/22/10 8:46 AM, Alexey Khudyakov wrote: Hello everyone! It's well known that Num Co type classes are not adequate for vectors (I don't mean arrays). I have an idea how to address this problem. Conal Elliott wrote very nice set of type classes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] vector-space and standard API for vectors

2010-10-23 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 24.10.2010 01:19, Daniel Peebles wrote: Just out of curiosity, why do you (and many others I've seen with similar proposals) talk about additive monoids? are they somehow fundamentally different from multiplicative monoids? Or is it just a matter of notation? When I was playing with building

[Haskell-cafe] vector-space and standard API for vectors

2010-10-22 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Hello everyone! It's well known that Num Co type classes are not adequate for vectors (I don't mean arrays). I have an idea how to address this problem. Conal Elliott wrote very nice set of type classes for vectors. (Definition below). I used them for some time and quite pleased. Code is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to catch exception within the Get monad (the Binary package)

2010-09-07 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 07.09.2010 20:51, Henning Thielemann wrote: This solution looks very ugly to me. Catching 'error's is debugging, but parser failure is kind of exception handling. I guess, the errors you want to catch are caused by non-supported fail method, right? Can't you use a monad transformer like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to catch exception within the Get monad (theBinary package)

2010-09-05 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 05.09.2010 22:02, Don Stewart wrote: For strict, checked binary parsing, use the cereal package. For lazy binary parsing with async errors, use binary. Unfortunately cereal is too slow. I got ~5x slowdown with cereal and had to patch binary in order to incorporated error handling

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Filename encoding error (was: Perform a research a la Unix 'find')

2010-08-22 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 22.08.2010 21:23, Yves Parès wrote: In fact the encoding problem is more general. When I simply do 'readFile bar/fooé', then I'm told: *** Exception: bar/fooé: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) How am I supposed to read files whose names contains non-ASCII characters? (I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary-generic-0.2, generic binary serialisation using binary and syb.

2010-08-20 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 21.08.2010 01:38, Lars Petersen wrote: * Float and Double are serialised big-endian according to binary-ieee754 I'd like to point out that binary-ieee754 is dead slow[1] and not usable when one cares about performance. IMHO lack of ways to serialize floating point data in IEEE754 format

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is toRational a method of Real?

2010-08-05 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 05.08.2010 13:35, Henning Thielemann wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, John Meacham wrote: The numeric classes are sort of messed up when it comes to non integral values. (not that they are perfect for other things) for instance, realToFrac doesn't preserve NaN or Infinity, Why should

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Playing with ATs again

2010-08-03 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On 03.08.2010 21:25, Andrew Coppin wrote: Now suppose that instead of a container type with an associated element type, what we want is several pairs of types having a one-to-one relationship, and we want to be able to traverse that relationship in either direction. What's the best way to do

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce type-level-natural-number-1.0: Simple, Haskell 2010-compatible type level natural numbers

2010-07-31 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:20:55 -0700 John Meacham j...@repetae.net wrote: type family Add n m :: * type instance Add Zero Zero = Zero type instance Add Zero (SuccessorTo n) = SuccessorTo n type instance Add (SuccessorTo n) m= SuccessorTo (Add n m) Standard package

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce type-level-natural-number-1.0: Simple, Haskell 2010-compatible type level natural numbers

2010-07-30 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
to represent big numbers. Little real work has been done on this so it's reasonable to expect progress or even some breakthough. Maybe some generic inteface for conversion of different representation of natural numbers would be good. Any suggestions -- Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can we come out of a monad?

2010-07-30 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
this function be written without resorting to concrete monad -- Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell at CERN

2010-07-27 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Hello I'm wondering is there any haskellers in CERN? Given quality and usability of software there must be people looking for better alternatives. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HaTeX build failure

2010-07-23 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Daniel Díaz lazy.dd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I uploaded a package, named HaTeX, to Hackage, but it gets a build failure: Any idea? Cabal file has BOM in the beginning. Maybe it make parser choke... ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cereal vs. binary

2010-07-03 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:57 PM, braver delivera...@gmail.com wrote: I dump results of a computation as a Data.Trie of [(Int,Float)].  It contains about 5 million entries, with the lists of 35 or less pairs each.  It takes 8 minutes to load with Data.Binary and lookup a single key.  What can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cereal vs. binary

2010-07-03 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:57 PM, braver delivera...@gmail.com wrote: I dump results of a computation as a Data.Trie of [(Int,Float)].  It contains about 5 million entries, with the lists of 35 or less pairs each

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Construction of short vectors

2010-06-28 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Jake McArthur jake.mcart...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com wrote: Dependent types would be nice but there isn't anything usable out there. Newtype wrapper parametrized by type level number works fine

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Construction of short vectors

2010-06-27 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:30:06 -0300 Felipe Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:41:48AM +0400, Alexey Khudyakov wrote: Then constructor like one below arise naturally. And I don't know how to write them properly. It's possible to use fromList but then list could

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Core packages and locale support

2010-06-27 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
encoding. -- Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Construction of short vectors

2010-06-27 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:55:21 +1000 Roman Leshchinskiy r...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: On 25/06/2010, at 06:41, Alexey Khudyakov wrote: Then constructor like one below arise naturally. And I don't know how to write them properly. It's possible to use fromList but then list could

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Construction of short vectors

2010-06-27 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Alexander Solla a...@2piix.com wrote: On Jun 27, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Alexey Khudyakov wrote: This is of course faster but what I really want is vectors with length parametrized by type. This way I can write generic code. Uniform representation is requirement

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Core packages and locale support

2010-06-26 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:14:50 -0300 Felipe Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:01:06PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: but what you propose cannot be used in Windows at all! while current FilePath still works on Unix, with manual filenames en/decoding Now we got

[Haskell-cafe] Construction of short vectors

2010-06-24 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Hello, cafe I have question about vector package. Currently I'm playing with data types which are isomorphic to vectors of fixed length. Think about vector in N-dimensional space, list of parameters to function R^n → R, set of measurements with uncertainties, etc. They have different semantics

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is Haskell unsuitable for? Dis-functional programming!

2010-06-17 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:45:16 -0400 cas...@istar.ca wrote: :) Objection! http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BASIC A simplified version of the original BASIC embedded in Haskell. -- Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reporting a problem with binary-0.5

2010-06-04 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Pete Chown 1...@234.cx wrote: I've been trying to get in touch with the maintainers of the Binary package, to report an issue.  When I emailed the addresses given on Hackage, I got an automated response saying I had used an address that was no longer current. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reporting a problem with binary-0.5

2010-06-04 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Alexey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com wrote: Here is code I use to work around this issue: Forgot to mention. This code checks for end of input. Your data is infinite so you simplify definition if you like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-12-04 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
2009/12/4 Roman Salmin roman.sal...@gmail.com: On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +, Matthias Görgens wrote: _So my strong opinion that solution is only DSL not EDSL_ Why do you think they will learn your DSL, if they don't learn any other language? I didn't said that they didn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary and error handling

2009-12-03 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Mark Lentczner ma...@glyphic.com wrote: I'm in the same quandary: Data.Binary from the binary package has no error handling Data.Serialize from the cereal package uses only strict ByteString I was going to add error handling to Binary as a weekend project

[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary and error handling

2009-11-27 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Hello Is there any plans to add error handling for binary? When it comes to binary parsing most awkward part is error handling I presume answer will be like there are some vague plans but no one to implement them so the second question how could it be done? Naive implementation of error

Re: [Haskell-cafe] poor perfomance of indexU in uvector package

2009-11-16 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: alexey.skladnoy: I found that perfomace of indexU is very poor and it is not fast O(1) operation which is very surprising. Here is some benchmarcking I've done. Everything compiled with -O2 You're using the streamed version

[Haskell-cafe] poor perfomance of indexU in uvector package

2009-11-15 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Hello This post meant to be literate haskell. I found that perfomace of indexU is very poor and it is not fast O(1) operation which is very surprising. Here is some benchmarcking I've done. Everything compiled with -O2 Code below converts square 2D array to list of 1D arrays. Summation of array

Re: [Haskell-cafe] poor perfomance of indexU in uvector package

2009-11-15 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Felipe Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 03:00:34PM +0300, Alexey Khudyakov wrote: Naive implementation using lists and index lookup. 2.15 second for 200*200 array sliceXlist :: Int - UArr Double - [UArr Double] sliceXlist n

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Too much strictness in binary-0.5.0.2

2009-10-18 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
Yes. We decided that having the Get monad as a lazy state monad just doesn't make sense. It makes this one use case work, but causes more problems generally. Certainly we need to be able to do lazy binary deserialisation too, but our feeling is that it should be more explicit and integrate

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [uvector] derive UA instance for newtype

2009-09-24 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com wrote: I believe this is a bug that was introduced in 6.10.2 (it definitely worked in 6.10.1) that has since been fixed in HEAD. This newtype deriving issue also prevents the uvector testsuite from running at the moment.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] XMonad and NetworkManager?

2009-06-29 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Ketil Maldeke...@malde.org wrote: Hi, A bit off-topic, but this is the café, after all... Like many here, I run XMonad as my window manager on top of Linux. On - at least my brand of - Linux, networking is generally handled by NetworkManager, which really

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Runge-Kutta library -- solve ODEs

2009-04-19 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
I have so far only tested it with ghc 6.8.3 on MacOS 10.3.9 (powerPC), but I know of no reason why it wouldn't work with other versions and OSs. It breaks on Linux (and all unices) because name of file in tarball is 'rungekutta.hs' not 'RungeKutta.hs' as required. In other words: god blame

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to use Unicode strings?

2008-11-22 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
This upsets me. We need to get on with doing this properly. The System.IO.UTF8 module is a useful interim workaround but we're not using it properly most of the time. ... skipped ... The right thing to do is to make Prelude.putStrLn do the right thing. We had a long discussion on how to

[Haskell-cafe] Histogram creation

2008-11-10 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
(possibly millions of elements) and it will traverse input data for each histogram. It seems that I need to use mutable array and/or ST monad or something else. Sadly both of them are tricky and difficult to understand. So good examples or any other ideas greatly appreciated. -- Alexey Khudyakov