Re: [Haskell-cafe] For Project Euler #24 you don't need to generate all the lexicographic permutations

2011-05-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
i/Euler_problems/21_to_30 -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

2011-04-21 Thread Jeff Wheeler
me what the > "problems" with Darcs actually are? Yi, a fairly large and old repository, recently moved to (primarily) Git. Our motivation was not flaws in Darcs, but rather GitHub. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering Unive

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell mailing lists followup?

2011-03-15 Thread Jeff Wheeler
any mail from @haskell.org for several days, whereas other email was coming through fine. Having re-enabled delivery, everything seems fine. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: HSCurses - Hello World? (can't find much documentation)

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
> > hscurses vs ncurses in other languages. >> >> UI.HSCurses.Curses follows ncurses quite closely so you can get pretty >> far reading the NCurses Programming HOWTO: >> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/ > > > Also, http://invisible-island.net/ncu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi on Windows

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Wheeler
7;t see why the errors file can't just be left so > that you see errors whenever you launch. I'll try changing this later this > evening (UK) and let you know if it works. The alternative would be to force > the file to be read strictly then closed. I think it's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi on Windows

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Wheeler
x27;t exist: "C:\Users\peter\Local > Settings\Cache\yi\errors.log". "Local Settings" doesn't exist on Windows 7. > This is now "AppData\Local" I think. Setting the cacheDir field of the dyre > Params should fix this, but I don't have time to try it ri

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi on Windows

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Wheeler
elevant config when it's ready to start. Yi.Boot instructs dyre on how to work with configs for yi. Best of luck, and thanks for playing with Yi! -Jeff -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi on Windows

2010-10-12 Thread Jeff Wheeler
customize in Haskell. > Any suggestions appreciated. > Thanks > > Peter > ___ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ordering vs. Order

2010-10-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
rring). Reading the original message, this seems to be the misunderstanding. The verb "order" can be interpreted as something like sorting (what we mean in Haskell, can also be said to be "giving order" to the list) or to command something, which is pretty much a completely di

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

2010-04-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
rcles, but > virtually all websites requiring a registration allow you to use > whatever you like as a username. As does email. As does IRC. I can't > think of many bits of the internet that don't.) Yep. On the internet, you get to be anonymous. Why don't we kick peopl

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Jeff Wheeler
different formatting could make this read more easily. At the very least, the package name and description should be a different color or weight. I'd move the description onto the same line (wrapping if necessary), but a lighter weight and a lighter gray (same color as the "L

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
g into. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANN: Yi 0.6.2.2

2010-03-25 Thread Jeff Wheeler
ompatible with 6.10. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC Proposals?

2010-03-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Thomas DuBuisson wrote: > Be sure to try your user name without any capitals - that worked for me... The account I created is jeffwheeler -- all lowercase, no spaces -- unfortunately, so that doesn't seem to be the problem I'm hitting. --

[Haskell-cafe] SoC Proposals?

2010-03-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
could then use this library, like Yi, for other types of tiling. I'd love to see other ideas related to Yi, too. It's a great project but on the verge of death (although the maintainer, JPB, is interested in mentoring). -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering Univers

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lambda's

2009-12-30 Thread Jeff Wheeler
NSFW, by the way. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > I love lambda's: -- Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Design question

2009-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
#x27;m not sure if it's totally applicable, but generalized algebraic datatypes (GADTs) might be what you're looking for. -- Jeff Wheeler (Sorry, sent this to the author originally.) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages -> cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Wheeler
tch kid dolls. The original idea, cabbage, doesn't seem silly to me. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages -> cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jason Dusek wrote: >  Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal >  packages. Let's call them cabbages. +1 Yes, let's. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-

[Haskell-cafe] Compiling Yi's Dependencies on Windows

2009-09-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
e many apps easier to install on Windows, not just Yi. Are there any other dependencies that have trouble on Windows which I haven't run into yet? If they're library dependencies, can the headers be included in the Hackage tarball? Jeff Wheeler

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-09 Thread Jeff Wheeler
(a la gksu) or other *nix environments (Windows doesn't have anything like sudo, as far as I know). Since it works essentially the same as *nix does, as of Windows 7, I see no reason for a different default. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Caf

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
a bit confusing. Yep, I agree. I'm not sure why Cabal defaults to --global on Windows, but I found it quite counter-intuitive having come from a Linux environment. I forgot about the different default for some time. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe maili

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Request for Changelogs

2009-08-06 Thread Jeff Wheeler
g to from Hackage would be a very simple way to do changelogs in Hackage. I like this solution. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghci identifier listing question

2009-07-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
y can list all identifiers > which start with a given prefix, but I would like to know if GHCi can show > me all identifiers defined in a given module or in the current session (by > pressing Tab or alike). Yes, this will list the current bindings: > :s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Simple quirk in behavior of `mod`

2009-07-22 Thread Jeff Wheeler
d div operations let's please put > them in a separate module. Couldn't the same be said for round-to-even, instead of rounding down like every other language? I doubt any beginners have ever expected it, but it's probably better. Jeff Wheeler _

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Adding an ignore function to Control.Monad

2009-07-11 Thread Jeff Wheeler
x27;t even be evaluated: it'll be ignored, and skipped. But it is, and only part --- the result --- is ignored. What about 'void' with functors? Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Leaner Haskell.org frontpage

2009-07-09 Thread Jeff Wheeler
iguous differences to a beginner); 2) the Search link near the top of the navigation (which links to an almost empty page that might as well be included at the link's location); and 3) the Search link underneath the About header, which doesn't seem to belong at all. Jeff Wheeler (Sorry, s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hsparql, a SPARQL query generator/DSL and client

2009-07-09 Thread Jeff Wheeler
them. I guess I have a good excuse to go learn them, though, now. :) Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hsparql, a SPARQL query generator/DSL and client

2009-07-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
age > > return [name, page] It's currently available on Hackage [2], and at the moment the source is only available from the tarball hosted there. I'd greatly appreciate any feedback on this package. Thanks! Jeff Wheeler [1] http://dbpedia.org/ [2] http://hackage.haskel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Non Empty List?

2009-06-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 02:08 +0200, GüŸnther Schmidt wrote: > As for the zipper: In some of the examples I've seen, the zipper is > implemented "on top" of an underlying data structure, but not the data > structure itself. > In my app I was actually going to pull a zipper over it, once I had the

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Error message reform (was: Strange type error with associated type synonyms)

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
;inferred type for term, but expected type in > context". As a native English speaker myself, I've also found it awkward because both types are inferred, I suppose. The alternate format you've suggested would make it much more clear, in my opinion, and I strongly feel that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Error message reform (was: Strange type error with associated type synonyms)

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
an Integer, or based on the argument that I provided, it should be a String? The same goes for the inferred type: it knows what the type of the literal argument (String), so I would assume the inferred type was the type in the function's signature. Unfortunately, my reasoning in both case

Re: [Haskell-cafe] May all logos be freely used?

2009-05-26 Thread Jeff Wheeler
of tools around to generate various versions with roudedness and different colors. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] WolframAlpha

2009-05-06 Thread Jeff Wheeler
; > every few months for the next 10 years, like Duke Nukem Forever. The website says May 2009 (this month), and I don't know of any previous announcements claiming to have a date. I'm buying this one. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe maili

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Best text editor

2009-04-14 Thread Jeff Wheeler
and all the docs. This is slowly improving, and Yi's haddock documentation now builds fine. This should soon be available on Hackage also, when the Haddock there is upgraded. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Link errors in Gtk2Hs are more general than I thought.

2009-04-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
the GTK UI should work. Earlier tonight, though, I reported an issue that causes only the first line of any buffer in the Pango Yi UI to be visible [2], which makes this much less useful. Jeff Wheeler [1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs [2] http

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The votes are in!

2009-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
then intermittently contributing there. I now hang about in #yi most every day, and #haskell quite frequently too. I rarely have anything sufficiently interesting for the mailing list. ;) Again, thanks (and Darrin, too)! Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
t digressing too much, I don't think much can be done here. I would not (and should not) expect the bootstrap.sh file to use apt to get the missing dependencies as I had to do. I don't think there's any general solution to this, beyond better error handling (which appar

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
my own system, but those are easy to fix, at which point I can rerun the bootstrap script. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
4th images on the wiki) is about the extent of my graphic ability, but I'll try to give it a shot regardless. Thanks for the feedback. :) Jeff Wheeler signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Haskell-Cafe mailin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
pe file. :-/ > X monad could have a variant of this logo too. >X= (That's how I > originally thought of it, just was too lazy to post it anywhere. Sorry > about that.) I like that too; not sure what to do for Yi, though. Anybody mind if I add these to the wiki, too? I feel like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
y Mac, unfortunately, so it'll stay for the moment. Jeff Wheeler [1] http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo4.png ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
x27;m thinking about a second version that more obviously defines the second '>' with color from the bottom-right part of the lambda. Jeff Wheeler [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png [2]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo2.png

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
m thinking about a second version that more obviously defines the second '>' with color from the bottom-right part of the lambda. Jeff Wheeler [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskel

[Haskell-cafe] Terminal-like Application Design

2008-10-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
a monad here, and if so, how? Thanks in advance, Jeff Wheeler [1] http://media.nokrev.com/junk/cli/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] maybe a goal and challenge for the Haskell in terms of scientific computing

2008-10-03 Thread Jeff Wheeler
scientists, without knowing much Python, to write large programs that work well for most of their purposes. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe