On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 13:04 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: > Now that is "real world" - problems even before release!-) > > Seriously, though, what is the RWH authors' plan for tackling > the eternal frustration of Haskell book authors, a moving target? > > There used to be a time when one could guess the poster's > Haskell book from their question topics: > > - 'HGL' doesn't work: Hudak's book > - 'fromInt' issues: Thompson's book > > The problem arises because the books survive far longer than > the version of the code base they refer to. The only way to reduce > this friction has been to avoid fast-changing details, eg, focussing > on programming, problem solving, reasoning (Hutton, Thompson, > Bird), and even that isn't safe ('n+k', 'fromInt',..). Neither is > keeping a separate library - 'SOEGraphics' has been revived > several times, on different GUI/graphic libs, even different Haskell > implementations, but has always fallen prey to bitrot again.
There are currently two independent working implementations of SOEGraphics on GUI libs that are maintained. I think it'll probably be ok. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe