[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.6.1

2009-06-24 Thread David Barton
Switching to Haskell Cafe; I hope you read that list, John, since it seems more suitable to this kind of question. John Meacham wrote: Hi, this is to announce the release of jhc 0.6.1. The jhc homepage with distribution information is at http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/ The main new feature

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal: error on configure

2008-10-07 Thread David Barton
OK, I suspect this is a real newbie error, but please have mercy. I have downloaded and installed cabal (at least it responds to the --help command from the command line). Yet when I do, say (to give a real example): cabal configure parameterized_ data (having done he fetch) I get this

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

2007-10-18 Thread David Barton
The trustworthy articles on Wikipedia have references that can be checked, and read. The ones without references are not to be trusted.. Dave Barton - Original Message - From: Philippa Cowderoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PR Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Sent:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functions with side-effects?

2005-12-21 Thread David Barton
Wolfgang Jeltsch writes: - Original Message - Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 13:15 schrieb Creighton Hogg: [...] Monads, I believe, can be just thought of as containers for state. I would say that you are talking especially about the I/O monad here. A monad as such is a rather

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Updating the Haskell Standard

2005-07-20 Thread David Barton
John Goerzen writes: There was a brief discussion on #haskell today about the Haskell standard. I'd like to get opinions from more people, and ask if there is any effort being done in this direction presently. snip I know that some people would like to hold off on such a process until

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Newbie : How come that cyclic recursive lists areefficient ?

2005-01-25 Thread David Barton
Benjamin Fransen writes: There *is no* difference between the two if one views them as pure mathematical values. Questions of run time speed or memory usage, i.e. efficiency (which your original question was about) are clearly outside the realm of pure values, and thus we may perceive them as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The implementation of functional languages

2004-09-21 Thread David Barton
John Meacham writes: I am looking for the book The implementation of Functional Programming languages by S. L. Peyton Jones. This book is out of print and currently there is no electronic version of it. The Haskell bookstore folk are working on reconstructing it and making it available

Re: Graphical Programming Environments (was: ANNOUNCE: Release of Vit al, an interactive visual programming environment for Haskell)

2003-11-13 Thread David Barton
I love religious wars. Having been around awhile, I make a prediction. This will thrash a while, those who like graphical environments will make their points, those who like textual environments will make their points, no one will convince anyone else, and eventually it will die down. In fact

Re: Typing units correctly

2001-02-13 Thread David Barton
Tom Pledger writes: In both of those cases, the apparent non-integer dimension is accompanied by a particular unit (km, V). So, could they equally well be handled by stripping away the units and exponentiating a dimensionless number? For example: (x / 1V) ^ y I think not.