[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: October 31, 2006

2006-10-30 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
--- Haskell Weekly News http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN Issue 47 - October 31, 2006 --- Welcome to issue 47 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering dev

[Haskell] Associated data types in GHC

2006-10-30 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Dear Haskell Folks This is to announce the availability of indexed data types, a modest extension of our earlier proposal for associated data types[1], in GHC's development version. Detailed information on where to get the right GHC and how to use indexed types is available from the Haskell wiki:

[Haskell] RE: package mounting

2006-10-30 Thread Benjamin Franksen
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > | > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageMounting > | > | It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base flag ought to > | take both the package name *and* the mountpoint? > | > | Otherwise, this looks like what I've wanted all along, if only I knew >

[Haskell] University of Oxford: Lectureships in Software Engineering

2006-10-30 Thread Jeremy . Gibbons
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Software Engineering Programme Kellogg College THREE UNIVERSITY LECTURERSHIPS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Applications are invited for three new University Lecturerships in Software Engineering. The successful applicants will join the staff of the University's Software Engineer

[Haskell] RE: package mounting

2006-10-30 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageMounting | | It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base flag ought to | take both the package name *and* the mountpoint? | | Otherwise, this looks like what I've wanted all along, if only I knew it ;-). I think most of you know

Re: [Haskell] Re: package mounting

2006-10-30 Thread Frederik Eaton
> What about packages with multiple module trees like, say, Cabal? That's a good question, and I think the right answer is not to do anything special to support them. I assume that what you're referring to with Cabal is that there is no common prefix for all of the module names, but rather a small

[Haskell] Re: package mounting

2006-10-30 Thread Ketil Malde
Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base flag ought to >> take both the package name *and* the mountpoint? > My intention was that -package-base specifies a base for the package > specified in the preceding -package flag [...] > In other w

Re: [Haskell] Re: package mounting

2006-10-30 Thread Lemmih
On 10/30/06, Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:03:32PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote: > On 10/25/06, Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageMounting > > It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base fl