RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-12-28 Thread Lauri Alanko
Quoting "Wolfgang Jeltsch" : Am Mittwoch, den 28.12.2011, 12:48 + schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: Only that BOX is a sort (currently the one and only sort), whereas Constraint is a kind. I'm not sure that BOX should ever be displayed to users. Okay, this makes sense then. However, note that

Re: [reactive] Re: black hole detection and concurrency

2009-01-04 Thread Lauri Alanko
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:40:38PM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote: > - does anyone use mapException? I was the one who originally requested it, since it was mentioned in the paper and looked reasonable, but was missing from GHC. My motivation was that it could be used by a pure function to hide the exc

Re: Mutable hash?

2004-10-23 Thread Lauri Alanko
en for ST (or a generalization thereof), since one can always use stToIO if operation in the IO monad is really required. Lauri Alanko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgo

Syntax for output-only arrows?

2004-06-08 Thread Lauri Alanko
t it? I for one find it extremely convenient that I can write "purely imperative" code with a simple syntax like do { foo; bar; baz }. I'd like similar simplicity when dealing with arrows, too. Lauri Alanko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Glasg

Re: Constructors in GHC

2002-12-11 Thread Lauri Alanko
s much more attractive to me. Consistency and predictable typing is important, and it's ok for things to look funny because, after all, funny things _are_ going on when special optimizations are applied. Lauri Alanko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Glasgow-has

Re: Proposals for changes to searching behaviour

2002-12-09 Thread Lauri Alanko
en how about allowing A.B/C.hs for module A.B.C? Then you don't need to have a long, mostly empty dummy hierarchy. Lauri Alanko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Strings are slow

2002-11-19 Thread Lauri Alanko
te representations. With heavy specialization, of course. This would be especially useful if the FFI (especially withCString) supported it. Or alternatively, maybe the foldr/build rewriting trick could be used to eliminate some redundant conversions between representations? Just throwing ideas

RE: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Lauri Alanko
ll ghc5" to get the latest package from the nearest mirror... Lauri Alanko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: MonadError and fundeps

2001-05-11 Thread Lauri Alanko
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:14:24PM +0200, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2001, Lauri Alanko wrote: > > > Why? This makes composing and "subtyping" impossible: > > > > instance (MonadTrans t, MonadState s m, Monad (t m)) > >

Re: MonadError and fundeps

2001-05-11 Thread Lauri Alanko
mized versions of all the common libs... Lauri Alanko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users