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Today's Topics:
1. Looking for some guidance to installing GHCI on MAC
(patricklynch)
2. Re: Question about List Type Constraint and Null (Daniel Fischer)
3. Re: Question about List Type Constraint and Null (aditya siram)
4. Re: Looking for some guidance to installing GHCI on MAC
(Antoine Latter)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:45:13 -0500
From: "patricklynch" <kmandpjly...@verizon.net>
Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Looking for some guidance to installing
GHCI on MAC
To: <beginners@haskell.org>
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Good afternoon,
I have HUGS installed on my MAC OSX...
Can you please give me some guidance to installing GHCI on the same MAC
OSX?
I need to keep both HUGS and GHCI on the MAC.
Thank you
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:26:05 +0100
From: Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Question about List Type Constraint
and Null
To: aditya siram <aditya.si...@gmail.com>
Cc: beginners@haskell.org
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On Saturday 22 January 2011 23:11:07, aditya siram wrote:
> > The value of `null res' for a given String obviously depends on the
> > type at which res is used.
>
> Why does it matter what the type of res is as long as it is some kind
> of list? Doesn't 'reads' always gives [(a1,String)]? So why does it
> matter what type 'a1' is?
Because
reads "True, that" :: [(Bool,String)]
~> [(True,", that")]
and
reads "True, that" :: [(Int,String)]
~> []
So to evaluate `null res', the type of res must be known/fixed.
If it isn't, the compiler has two choices.
It can refuse to compile or it can compile and let the runtime throw an
error "Can't evaluate because I don't know the type" (I think the second
option isn't available for GHC).
In my opinion, the first option is preferable.
>
> Thanks for the clear explanation of the monomorphism restriction.
> -deech
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:29:33 -0600
From: aditya siram <aditya.si...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Question about List Type Constraint
and Null
To: Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com>
Cc: beginners@haskell.org
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<aanlktimldjtj51qyub6tnhp1q0wbbs9fj-4qpjhhj...@mail.gmail.com>
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Wow, 'reads' is a weird function. Thanks a bunch for the explanation.
-deech
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Daniel Fischer
<daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 22 January 2011 23:11:07, aditya siram wrote:
>> > The value of `null res' for a given String obviously depends on the
>> > type at which res is used.
>>
>> Why does it matter what the type of res is as long as it is some kind
>> of list? Doesn't 'reads' always gives [(a1,String)]? So why does it
>> matter what type 'a1' is?
>
> Because
>
> reads "True, that" :: [(Bool,String)]
> ~> [(True,", that")]
>
> and
>
> reads "True, that" :: [(Int,String)]
> ~> []
>
> So to evaluate `null res', the type of res must be known/fixed.
> If it isn't, the compiler has two choices.
> It can refuse to compile or it can compile and let the runtime throw an
> error "Can't evaluate because I don't know the type" (I think the second
> option isn't available for GHC).
> In my opinion, the first option is preferable.
>
>>
>> Thanks for the clear explanation of the monomorphism restriction.
>> -deech
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:30:25 -0600
From: Antoine Latter <aslat...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Looking for some guidance to
installing GHCI on MAC
To: patricklynch <kmandpjly...@verizon.net>
Cc: beginners@haskell.org
Message-ID:
<AANLkTikRB84V=gsr2zi-sdtrysgf2zddyll0jmrb5...@mail.gmail.com>
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Have you tried the instructions for the Haskell Platform? From what I
understands it includes GHC (which usually includes GHCi) and various
Haskell libraries:
http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html
Antoine
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:45 PM, patricklynch <kmandpjly...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> I have HUGS installed on my MAC OSX...
> Can you please give me some guidance to installing GHCI on the same ?MAC
> OSX?
> I need to keep both HUGS and GHCI on the MAC.
> Thank you
>
>
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