Re: Holes in GHC

2012-02-13 Thread Conor McBride
Hi Sorry to pile in late... On 13 Feb 2012, at 09:09, Thijs Alkemade wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Andres Löh > wrote: >> Hi Thijs. >> >> Sorry if this has been discussed before. >> >> In my opinion, the main advantage of Agda goals is not that the type >> of the hole itself is s

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Conor McBride
On 22 Dec 2011, at 16:08, Sean Leather wrote: I've built it from source (ghc-7.4.0.20111219-src.tar.bz2) on Leopard. I'd be happy to contribute my build if somebody tells me what to do. I had a crack at this and got quite warm, literally and metaphorically. But, no, I didn't quite get the

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Conor McBride
On 22 Dec 2011, at 16:08, Sean Leather wrote: I've built it from source (ghc-7.4.0.20111219-src.tar.bz2) on Leopard. I'd be happy to contribute my build if somebody tells me what to do. I hope somebody who knows does just that. Meanwhile, that sounds good to try for myself. My flat's a bi

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-22 Thread Conor McBride
Hi On 21 Dec 2011, at 22:41, Johan Tibell wrote: Built a bunch of packages using the 64-bit compiler on OS X Lion. Works fine. I'm a bit of a numpty when it comes to this sort of thing. I tried to install this version ghc-7.4.0.20111219-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 under Leopard, a

Re: Superclass defaults

2011-09-02 Thread Conor McBride
ll-users- | boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Jonas Almström Duregård | Sent: 02 September 2011 16:50 | To: Conor McBride | Cc: GHC users | Subject: Re: Superclass defaults | | > The question then comes down to whether that warning should ever be | > strengthened to an error. | | Indeed. | |

Re: Superclass defaults

2011-09-02 Thread Conor McBride
Hi On 2 Sep 2011, at 16:34, Brandon Allbery wrote: I hope I am misunderstanding this I wrote: I agree that such a scenario is possible. The present situation gives no choice but to do things badly, but things often get done badly the first time around anyway. Perhaps I'm just grumpy, bu

Re: Superclass defaults

2011-09-02 Thread Conor McBride
Hi On 2 Sep 2011, at 10:55, Jonas Almström Duregård wrote: On 31 August 2011 12:22, Conor McBride wrote: I become perplexed very easily. I think we should warn whenever silent pre-emption (rather than explicit) hiding is used to suppress a default instance, because it is bad --- it makes

Re: Superclass defaults

2011-08-31 Thread Conor McBride
Hi Sorry to be late again...I'm trying to have what's laughably described as a holiday, but it seems more like the common cold to me. On 31 Aug 2011, at 08:52, Jonas Almström Duregård wrote: | > There seems to be a lot of support for Option 3... but what about Option 2 (ie pre-empt but give a

Re: Superclass defaults

2011-08-15 Thread Conor McBride
[resend to GHC users, now I've subscribed!] Hi Simon On 15 Aug 2011, at 11:36, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | Nice. But will it be happening soon, or not? And how soon is | soon? Not soon enough to be useful for this mappend question. But, concerning proposed extensions to GHC about class alias