[Haskell-cafe] FreeSect -- generalised sections syntax extension

2012-02-29 Thread Ras Far
Hello, I bit premature perhaps but I wanted to post it on a leap day... http://fremissant.net/freesect Thanks for eyebloom on #haskell for motivating me to finally implement an old idea. Thanks to the rest on #haskell for doing their best to talk me out of it. ;) I make no claims regarding

Re: [Haskell-cafe] FreeSect -- generalised sections syntax extension

2012-03-01 Thread Ras Far
to thrash my HDD during development. The executable is now produced in the root directory of the distro. Cheers, Andrew On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Ras Far ras...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I bit premature perhaps but I wanted to post it on a leap day... http://fremissant.net/freesect Thanks

Re: [Haskell-cafe] FreeSect -- generalised sections syntax extension

2012-03-02 Thread Ras Far
Hi John, Thanks for your feedback. It would be preferable to use regular parentheses to delimit the section, but it could only work in special cases. Consider this expression using free sections: map _[ f (g __ y) ]_ bs If that were written map (f (g __ y)) bs and parentheses used to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] FreeSect -- generalised sections syntax extension

2012-03-03 Thread Ras Far
So we can have ... chiastic freesects? This sounds like too much fun! I find chiasmus is a term from linguistics? From [1]: The elements of simple chiasmus are often labelled in the form ABBA, where the letters correspond to grammar, words, or meaning. So we've got love, too (Aramaic word

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-platform and ghc 7.4

2012-03-11 Thread Ras Far
Hi. What has worked for me is to install a binary package for 7.4.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_4_1#binaries You can install it someplace special by giving --prefix=/someplace/special to the configure script. Then, adjust your path to hit /someplace/special/bin before it hits

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: freesect-0.0.5

2012-03-11 Thread Ras Far
Hi, I'm pleased to announce my first package, freesect, which is a Haskell syntax extension to generalise sections. Please visit the homepage http://www.fremissant.net/freesect for more information. The package is also available on Hackage. Some previous discussion occurred on the haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: graphviz-2999.13.0.0

2012-04-19 Thread Ras Far
Hello Ivan, Thanks for bringing Graphviz to Haskell, and for your continuing dedication to making it more complete! I just tried Graphvis for the first time a few days ago. I regretted the absence of example code, especially as the API has been evolving, so that examples on the Web do not