on; on the other, it *does* help to
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On Friday, February 15, 2013 at 2:33 AM, sheng chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was puzzled by the following little program.
>
> sum' [
It's worth remembering that the main gain from lex/yacc had originally to do
with making the generated programs fit into 64K address space on a PDP11 more
than with any direct performance efficiency.
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On 5/7/11 15:10 , Eitan Goldshtrom wrote:
> I get the error "Couldn't match expected type `[Char]' with actual type `a0
> -> c0'". The only way it seems to work is
> f p = putStrLn $ (show (Main.id p)) ++ " - message received"
Interestingly enough, yo
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On 4/26/11 09:15 , Daniel Fischer wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 April 2011 02:00:32, jutaro wrote:
>> Well, it is a bit more intricate to invert the sides. After
>> * swapping LeftP and RightP in Edit Prefs -> Initial Pane positions
>> * Close all panes and p
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On 3/18/11 00:43 , Conal Elliott wrote:
> Speaking of which, for a while now I've been interested in designs of
> make-like systems that have precise & simple (denotational) semantics with
> pleasant properties. What Peter Landin called "denotative" (a
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On 3/16/11 00:10 , Dylan Alex Simon wrote:
> Does anyone know the current maintenance status of the X11 package? I emailed
> Spencer Janssen a number of months ago and never heard back. So, I'll put
> this here in case any one else runs into it or ca
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On 3/13/11 03:16 , bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> ghc: fdWriteBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe)
>
> which make sense, sort of. I write a value, let's say 10, and the
> reader reads it. It's the last value so it "closes" the fifo.
>
> Now there's no
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On 3/3/11 20:09 , Jacek Generowicz wrote:
>> 1 < 2 ok, same group
>> 1 < 3 dito
>> 1 < 2 dito
>> Thus you get [[1,2,3,2]]
>
> OK, that works, but it seems like a strange choice ...
Stability is often valued in functions like this: the order of eleme
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On 2/16/11 00:51 , Evan Laforge wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> wrote:
>> On 16 February 2011 14:46, Evan Laforge wrote:
>>> I just got started on this because packages are starting to use mtl2.
>>> I had hoped it wo
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(I'm probably glossing over important stuff and getting some details wrong,
as usual, but I hope it's good enough to give some idea of what's going on.)
On 2/15/11 11:57 , Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote:
> What state is that? It seems to be something r
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On 2/11/11 14:20 , Cristiano Paris wrote:
> God! It seems like I'm reading the small-character lines of a contract :)
Wait until you encounter the equivalent of rules-lawyering in the type system :)
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On 2/11/11 06:06 , C K Kashyap wrote:
> I've come across this a few times - "In Haskell, once can prove the
> correctness of the code" - Is this true?
Only up to a point. While most of the responses so far focus on the
question from one direction, th
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On 2/7/11 12:36 , Donn Cave wrote:
> I don't know the OpenGL example, but I gather you're talking about
> an API that's different in a practical way, not just a thin layer
> with the names spelled differently. In that case, assuming that
> it really i
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On 2/3/11 19:16 , Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> POSIX FIFOs and GHC's nonblocking file descriptors implementation don't play
> well together; you should launch the writer end first and let it block
More specifically, I think what&
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On 2/2/11 20:06 , wren ng thornton wrote:
> When I put this all together, the process is killed with:
> control message: Just (Err "endOfInput")
POSIX FIFOs and GHC's nonblocking file descriptors implementation don't play
well together; you should
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On 2/2/11 04:03 , Francesco Mazzoli wrote:
> Conrad Parker metadecks.org> writes:
>> On 31 January 2011 21:40, Francesco Mazzoli mazzo.li> wrote:
>>> Francesco Mazzoli mazzo.li> writes:
>>> At the end I gave up and I wrote the function myself:
>>> h
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On 1/31/11 15:24 , Daniel Fischer wrote:
> want. You could then also enable OverlappingInstances, which would allow
> you to write other instances, but that extension is widely regarded as
> dangerous (have to confess, I forgot what the dangers were,
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On 1/31/11 00:04 , Antoine Latter wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Aaron Gray
> wrote:
>> On 27 January 2011 22:42, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
>>> Only four days until the old Haskell.org server disappears; I found the
>>> following missing:
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On 1/30/11 12:13 , JETkoten wrote:
>> ;Default behaviour is to always
>> jump to the GHCi window.
>> ;Jump back automatically unless errors.
>>
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On 1/29/11 21:27 , michael rice wrote:
> I'm using the OpenGL stuff (GLFW). Same set of problems?
None of the lower level libraries support multithreading. If any of those
libraries use FFI bindings that run in a bound thread, they'll fail in the
thr
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On 1/30/11 00:24 , Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> Isn't there already a body of evidence that people who've never been exposed
> to procedural languages find functional programming to be much more natural?
Also worth pointing out
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On 1/27/11 10:28 , aditya siram wrote:
> Haskell's immutability is good for mathematics but doing anything else
> takes a great deal of up-front patience and perseverance, two very
> rare qualities in that demographic if my own childhood is any
> indic
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On 1/27/11 10:26 , Stephen Tetley wrote:
> John Peterson had some nice work using Haskore and Fran for elementary
> teaching on the old Haskell.org website. Google's cache says the old
> URL was here but its now vanished:
>
> www.haskell.org/edsl/camp
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On 1/26/11 22:13 , Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Yes, the problem is that Exception cannot hold anything in it. Things
> like Either might work. I am thinking how to make it work with
> StateT
That wasn't my point, but sure it can. Go take a look
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On 1/26/11 22:02 , Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Sorry, in last mail, I meant, in really wrong situation, there might
> be other tens of unexpected command, I'd like to wrap them in one
> exception, other than making tens of exceptions.
I'm not sure y
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On 1/26/11 22:00 , Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> This is one way. But so the outer function could not know what
> happened in "really wrong" situation.
How so?
(1) fromException lets you test it: if (fromException e :: Maybe
ControlException) return
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On 1/26/11 21:10 , Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Hi,
> Consider such a case: I'm making a client program. There is a
> process, client and server exchange some information in a strict
> order. So I do (persudo code):
> exchange = do
> sendHello
>
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On 1/19/11 17:43 , Evan Laforge wrote:
> My preprocessor works well, but occasionally I do have to go in and
> fix yet another odd corner that came up. Initially I thought I would
> only simplistically replace tokens and avoid using a full syntax
> pa
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On 1/17/11 12:16 , Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> The must be at least a million flash games, so clearly it can be used for
> that. If you create a flash game, nobody gets excited. But if you create an
> html5 based game, then people still get excited about that
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On 1/15/11 18:15 , Warren Henning wrote:
> MATLAB, LabVIEW, Fortran, Java, C, and non-OO C++/random subsets of
> C++ rule scientific programming. Unit testing is rare and sporadic. In
> dragging scientists halfway to something new, the exotic, powerful
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On 1/8/11 07:11 , Conor McBride wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2011, at 11:14, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>> For me, the solutions of Dave Menendez make most sense: Generalize Maybe
>> to Foldable and List to MonadPlus.
>
> What has it to do with monads? There's no
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On 1/7/11 21:56 , Tony Morris wrote:
> I am wondering if it possible to generalise catMaybes:
>
> (Something f, SomethingElse t) => t (f a) -> t a
>
> I have being doing some gymnastics with Traversable and Foldable and a
> couple of other things fr
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On 1/7/11 14:14 , Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
> Ur looks very impressive, so the natural question I'm asking myself is: How
> does it stack up against haskell frameworks, and why can't Ur be implemented
> in Haskell?
>
> I'm thinking mainly of the sa
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On 1/6/11 02:27 , Joe Bruce wrote:
> Now I'm stuck on readline again [lambdabot build step 28 of 81]:
> "/Users/joe/.cabal/lib/readline-1.0.1.0/ghc-6.12.3/HSreadline-1.0.1.0.o:
> unknown symbol `_rl_basic_quote_characters'"
This sounds like the cabal
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On 1/3/11 18:21 , Eric wrote:
> I would like to use freeglut instead of GLUT for my Haskell OpenGL program,
> but when I place the freeglut dll in the program's directory and try to run
> the program on Windows XP, I get the following error message:
>
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On 1/2/11 02:48 , C K Kashyap wrote:
> I found this site called http://vimgolf.com/ ... the idea there is
> that people come up with challenges and try to come up with the least
> number of keystrokes to get it done.
Code golf in any language is gener
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On 12/17/10 04:08 , Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
> Just in case, I'm also attaching a PDF of the current version to this
> email, but visiting the link is preferable, since I'll be updating the
> contents.
So lessee, I need t
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On 12/29/10 22:05 , william murphy wrote:
> I've spent a lot of time trying to write a version of concat, which
> concatenates lists of any "depth":
> So:
> concat'' [[[1,2],[3,4]],[[5]]] would return: [1,2,3,4,5]
You can't do that, at l
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On 12/17/10 06:22 , Arnaud Bailly wrote:
> Thanks for your answers. I am a little bit surprised, I thought
> timestamps were on the milliseconds scale.
POSIX timestamps are seconds.
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On 12/15/10 02:36 , Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> Regarding the rationale, I'm not so sure and I'd like to hear an
> explanation from someone competent. But I assume it has something
> to do with the fact that if you supply a 'do' argument, you cannot
> sup
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On 12/13/10 09:15 , Jacek Generowicz wrote:
> untilQuit' = (fmap (takeWhile (/= "quit"))) (sequence $ map (>>= report)
> (repeat getLine))
>
> -- The latter version shows the report, but it doesn't stop at the
> -- appropriate place, so I'm guessing t
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On 12/9/10 20:40 , Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> First to notice that. So standard-wise, there is no way to do state thing?
There seems to be a lot of confusion as to what the language standard
covers. It is a bare minimum; practical libraries are no
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On 12/9/10 02:01 , Tony Morris wrote:
> I teach haskell quite a lot. I recommend using .ghci files in projects.
> Today I received complaints about the fact that ghci will reject .ghci
> if it is group-writeable. I didn't offer an opinion on the matter
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On 12/10/10 02:14 , Permjacov Evgeniy wrote:
> Does haskell 2010 include binary IO? If no, what was the reason?
That's not really the language report's job. You're looking for the Haskell
Platform.
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On 12/8/10 12:57 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> inherited a knackered L-gulonolactone oxidase enzyme.
L-gluconolactone oxidase maybe?
(pedants-R-us...)
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On 12/9/10 16:04 , Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> I thought "X is a mirror of Y" meant X would be a read-only replica of Y,
> with some sort of protocol between X and Y to keep X up to date.
> As long as the material from Y replicated at X is *supposed* to b
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On 12/8/10 02:17 , Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 13:42 -0500, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> We went over this some time back; the GHC runtime is wrong here, it
>> should only disable flags when running with geteuid(
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On 12/7/10 18:53 , Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:04:04PM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:
>> It's not obvious to me that adding a mirror makes the infrastructure
>> more more insecure. Any particular concerns? (I hope I qualify as
>> n
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On 12/7/10 06:00 , Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> Since the base package is (with good reason) part of the compiler, anyone
>> smart enough to get that to work is smart enough to edit the cabal file.
>
ents from the recipients of the above"
(me, in alt.sysadmin.recovery. I'm not sure how someone converted "Brandon
S Allbery KF8NH" into "bf8" but that's the universal attribution.)
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On 12/7/10 08:07 , Ketil Malde wrote:
> Dan Knapp writes:
>> I agree that signed packages are a good idea. We should move with all
>> haste to implement them. But I'm not sure we want to hold up
>> everything else while we wait for that.
>
> IMO,
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On 12/6/10 13:22 , Antoine Latter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Tyler Pirtle wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:
>>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Tyler Pirtle wrote:
Hi cafe,
I'm just gettin
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On 12/5/10 17:05 , Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Isn't it better to move the dependency on 'base' out of the If block? I
> mean, someone might succeed to use GHC-7 with base-4.2 or GHC<7 or a
> different compiler with base-4.3.
Since the base package is
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On 12/5/10 15:07 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> you actually cannot do something as trivial as follow a conversation
You can, just not via the web site. I do it in Tweetdeck all the time.
That said, the important thing about Twitter is that it's *broadcas
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On 12/5/10 12:34 , Daniel Peebles wrote:
> Oh yeah, the 2.0 stuff that snobby techies love to hate :) hrrmpf back in my
> day we programmed in binary using a magnetized needle on the exposed tape! I
> don't need any of this newfangled bull.
>
> I
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On 12/4/10 21:35 , Jason Dagit wrote:
> In that case, here you go:
> http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/216043045.rss
> http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17788765.rss
>
> You can get those by finding them on twitter and then clicking th
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On 12/5/10 02:41 , Florian Lengyel wrote:
> Why is there even any consideration of some committee if someone wants to
> mirror the Hackage site? Why not mirror the site?
Because it would be nice to have a mirror run by someone (a) accountable (b)
who
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On 12/4/10 14:35 , Riad S. Wahby wrote:
> "Edward Z. Yang" wrote:
>> There are many setuid binaries to non-root users, so getuid() != geteuid()
>> would probably make more sense, though I'm not 100% it has all the correct
>> security properties.
>
>
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On 11/24/10 20:59 , John D. Ramsdell wrote:
> Due to a security concern, GHC 7.0.1 disables all runtime flags unless
> a new flag is provided during linking. Since limiting memory usage is
> so important, many developers will modify their cabal files
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On 11/28/10 08:47 , Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Gregory Collins:
>
>> * Andrew Coppin:
>>> Hypothesis: The fact that the average Haskeller thinks that this
>>> kind of dense cryptic material is "pretty garden-variety" notation
>>> possibly explains why
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On 11/13/10 09:19 , Brent Yorgey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:56:26PM -0800, Michael Litchard wrote:
>> a Perl perspective. I let him into what I was doing, and he opined I
>> should be using pcre. So now I'm second guessing my choices. Why do
>
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On 11/8/10 04:52 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> I'm not sure how MacPorts does packaging, so you may require to
> install a -dev or development version of glut to get the relevant
> headers and library files.
MacPorts always builds from source, so a
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On 11/6/10 23:09 , wren ng thornton wrote:
> On 11/6/10 6:20 AM, Reiner Pope wrote:
>> I was aware of this condition, but I'm not precisely sure it addresses
>> my requirements. When you run "cabal install some-package", cabal
>> reads all version cons
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On 11/11/10 11:12 , Simon Marlow wrote:
> I bootstrapped GHC from the intermediate C files on a 640K PC around 1993 or
> so. I don't remember exactly, but I think it might have worked, for some
> small value of "work".
If you used the right build env
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On 11/3/10 21:30 , Maciej Piechotka wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:57 -0400, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> On 10/29/10 09:35 , Dominique Devriese wrote:
>>> * Only introduce a dependency from type class A to type class B if a
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On 11/2/10 03:33 , Permjacov Evgeniy wrote:
> Forth is quite easy to implement, but can it be used as extension
> language? Wiki describes it as quite low level...
It's low level but rather easy to build up more complex stuff. It's never
been that po
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On 10/29/10 09:35 , Dominique Devriese wrote:
> * Only introduce a dependency from type class A to type class B if all
> functions in type class B can be implemented in terms of the
> functions in type class A or if type class A is empty.
Er? Eq
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On 10/30/10 06:55 , Patrick Browne wrote:
> -- Question 1
> -- commutative com 1 3
> -- This also gives true. Is it because of commutative equation or
> because of the plus operation?
Haskell doesn't know about commutativity; you got true because (+)
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On 10/29/10 22:30 , wren ng thornton wrote:
> On 10/29/10 8:33 PM, C. McCann wrote:
>> I suggest U+2621.
>
> I'm not sure I'd've ever recognized a funny 'z' as "caution sign"... :)
You'd have to be a TeX / Metafont user to get that one. (The LaTeX b
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On 10/29/10 20:33 , C. McCann wrote:
> I suggest U+2621.
Did you mean U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES there?
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On 10/25/10 10:49 , Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On 10/24/10 06:59 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
>> now I can't seem to find it. Instead, I had to navigate to the Unix download
>> page, download the source tarball, untar it (non-t
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On 10/24/10 06:59 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> now I can't seem to find it. Instead, I had to navigate to the Unix download
> page, download the source tarball, untar it (non-trivial under Windows), and
I thought WinZip added tar and tar.gz several years
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On 10/23/10 10:00 , Mark Spezzano wrote:
> What, exactly is happening here? I've compiled libiconv and put it under
> /usr/bin (so iconv is there). Yet it still complains...I don't get it. I've
> spend the best part of a day mucking around with this
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On 10/22/10 19:16 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Monday, October 18, 2010, 8:15:42 PM, you wrote:
>> If anyone is listening, I would very much like for there to be a
>> mechanism by which external functions can be called "unsafe"-ly, but
>> without blockin
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On 10/19/10 13:09 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> On 18/10/2010 09:59 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> On 18/10/10 21:56, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>> ...I thought *I* was the only person who's ever heard of Rexx?
>> Every amiga user is very likely to have heard of
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On 10/18/10 21:37 , Evan Laforge wrote:
> For instance, currently I have the top consumer of both time and alloc
> as 'get', which is 'lift . Monad.State.Strict.get'. Of course it
> occurs in a million places in the complete profile, along with
> myst
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On 10/18/10 01:18 , Nathan Howell wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
> wrote:
>> I thought Windows already had a system message for something like that. Or
>> at least it used to, although I can see
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On 10/16/10 12:07 , Ketil Malde wrote:
> Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes:
>
>>> Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do
>>> about this bootstrapping problem?
>
>> I thought the
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On 10/16/10 05:35 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> GC languages are not exactly rare, so maybe we'll see some OSes start adding
> new system calls to allow the OS to ask the application whether there's any
> memory it can cheaply hand back. We'll see...
I tho
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On 10/15/10 16:36 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Does anybody have any idea which particular dialect of pure math this paper
> is speaking? (And where I can go read about it...)
Type theory. It makes my head spin, too, since essentially my only exposure
to
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On 10/15/10 16:28 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> I'm surprised about the profiler. They seem really, really impressed with
> it. Which is interesting to me, since I can never seen to get anything
> sensible out of it. It always seems to claim that my program
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On 10/15/10 11:26 , Don Stewart wrote:
> Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do
> about this bootstrapping problem?
I thought the answer to that was supposed to be "bug your distribution to
package the Platform".
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On 10/13/10 13:48 , Jason Dagit wrote:
> Isn't debian etch a security liability at this point?
Never underestimate the inertia of a system which a professor uses for
research or a grad student for their thesis work.
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On 10/13/10 06:07 , Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Ben Franksen schrieb:
>> I wanted to create a clone of an existing program that had no help option
>> and instead gave the help output if it saw an invalid option.
>
> I find it very annoying if a progra
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On 10/11/10 03:37 , Michael Snoyman wrote:
> "verified users" will be displayed here. I'm also considering adding a
> new status as well: real picture, so that only people with real images
> (not cartoons, not identicons) can show up on the homepage. I
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On 10/11/10 04:41 , Brandon Moore wrote:
> particular about cryptographic primitives. Some side channel attacks seem to
> call for a very low-level language, to make it easier to verify that e.g.
> execution time and the memory access pattern does not
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On 10/11/10 04:06 , Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
> While I agree with the potential benefits, I also worry that you will
> end up making something that is far less well tested in practice. For
> widely used and fairly low-level libraries like gnutls, ope
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On 10/10/10 21:22 , Tim Matthews wrote:
> seems crazy. I don't know how that works and whether having that status
> absent means a haskeller is 'fake'/'imaginary' etc but I can't see how
> anyone would like to be labeled '¬real' or 'not real'.
I'll co
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On 10/9/10 08:30 , Christopher Done wrote:
> Every Darcs repository I've pulled this year has always showed me this
> message:
>
> ***
> Fetching a hashed repository would be
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On 10/9/10 10:25 , Kevin Jardine wrote:
> instance Show a => Monoidable a [String] where
> toMonoid a = [show a]
>
> main = putStrLn $ unwrap $ polyToMonoid [] True () (Just (5::Int))
>
> fails to compile.
>
> Why would that be? My understanding
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On 10/9/10 09:17 , Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>
> On 8 Oct 2010, at 16:56, Donn Cave wrote:
>
>> wikipedia: "Managed code is a differentiation coined by Microsoft to
>>identify computer program code that requires and will only execute
>>under th
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On 10/7/10 04:02 , Christian Sternagel wrote:
> However, I do know that there are many publications about "ordered
> structures" which use the word "ordering" (most of which I'm aware of, not
> by native speakers).
Like most things in Haskell, it's na
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On 10/5/10 12:38 , Henning Thielemann wrote:
> In order to be consistent with current case, maybe in layout mode:
>
> \1 -> f
> 2 -> g
>
> and in non-layout mode
>
> \{1 -> f; 2 -> g}
+1; likewise for consistency it should support guards (which wo
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On 10/5/10 10:52 , C K Kashyap wrote:
> And I had built up this impression that laziness distinguished Haskell
> by a huge margin ... but it seems that is not the case.
> Hence the disappointment.
Haskell is lazy-by-default and designed around lazy ev
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On 10/2/10 15:27 , Jan Christiansen wrote:
> You can use a similar approach for case expressions ; )
There are several better (that is, not using unsafePerformIO) versions at
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Case .
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On 9/27/10 17:07 , Max Rabkin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 22:57, Andrew Coppin
> wrote:
>> data Foo a b =
>> Fooa |
>> Bar b |
>> Foobar a b
>>deriving (Eq, Ord)
>
> Also, either your pipes don't line up, or you v
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On 9/25/10 11:06 , Donn Cave wrote:
> Though it's common practice for sure, maybe universal, does the
> "Don't insert a space after a lambda" rule make sense?
>
> I found it confusing at first sight, because of course it looks
More to the point, some
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On 9/19/10 20:12 , Jason Dagit wrote:
> There may be someway to do a google search that is restricted to just
> haskell-cafe archives but I'm not sure what the correct search syntax
> would be. Something about in-url and then the url of the archives.
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On 9/17/10 17:43 , Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On 9/17/10 05:27 , Neil Davies wrote:
>> Why not use kerberos?
> Mind, we use Kerberos heavily around here... but we have the infrastructure
> that uses it. Web application space is
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