Re: String != [Char]

2012-03-25 Thread Daniel Peebles
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis g...@integrable-solutions.net wrote: We are doing our students no favor, no good, in being condescending to them pretending that they can't handle teaching material that would actually be close real world experience. If we truly believe

Re: String != [Char]

2012-03-19 Thread Daniel Peebles
If the input is specified to be UTF-8, wouldn't it be better to call the method unpackUTF8 or something like that? On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Christian Siefkes christ...@siefkes.net wrote: On 03/19/2012 04:53

Re: Proposal: require spaces around the dot operator

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Peebles
I'm very happy to see all the work you're putting into the record discussion, but I'm struggling to see why people are fighting so hard to get the dot character in particular for field access. It seems like a huge amount of work and discussion for a tiny bit of syntactic convenience that we've

Re: Reform of the Monad, and Disruptive Change

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel Peebles
Perhaps GHC could be released with two sets of libraries. This would give people time to experiment without breaking existing code. It would also make implementing individual changes much easier. I fully support this. {-# LANGUAGE NewPrelude #-} or something similar would be wonderful.