Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 2

On 23 December 2016 at 04:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is happy to announce the second candidate of the > 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. > Thanks Fedora users can install it from my Fedora Copr Repo:

Can the definition of alwaysSucceeds be streamlined?

Currently, `GHC.Conc` has alwaysSucceeds :: STM a -> STM () alwaysSucceeds i = do ( i >> retry ) `orElse` ( return () ) checkInv i If I understand what's going on here (which I may not), I think this should be equivalent to alwaysSucceeds i = (i >> retry) `orElse` checkInv

Re: [Haskell-cafe] many haskell's mails are detected as spam on gmail

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: > Despite Google's public claims to the contrary, I have found the Gmail > spam filter not to work too reliably > I think it depends on your use case (and it's rather indicative of the core problem of spam detection that spam

Re: many haskell's mails are detected as spam on gmail

Despite Google's public claims to the contrary, I have found the Gmail spam filter not to work too reliably; I've had cases where it blocked important emails like "OK, here's my invoice (PDF attached)" in the middle of long email threads, of which messages were otherwise let through without