Farewell from an old friend.

Hi there, I've been using Haskell since about 1995-ish and would like to thank the ghc-team (in particular SPJ and SM) for their support. Also I would like to thank all those on the list for interesting contributions and help. Thanks again. Regards, Marc van Dongen -- M.R.C. van D

Re: Linking Problem, ghc 5.02: cannot find -lreadline

Martin Norbäck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : > ''cannot find -lreadline : >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status'' : Install the readline-devel package. Thanks. It now works as a charm. Regards, Marc ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAI

Linking Problem, ghc 5.02: cannot find -lreadline

anything about this on the web or in the mini faq. Anybody there to give me a quick hint how to get around this? Regards, Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Computer Science Department | Western Road | () ASCII ribbon campaign University College Cork |

Re: GC options. Reply

hange : : Put the default to 30M. That seems to be on the low side. Obviously people's opinions will always differ. Why not introduce environment variables to allow for people to set their own defauls settings? Regards, Marc [still lurking] van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept |

Two Times [was Re: Happy and Macros (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Happy 1.10 released)]

Manuel M. T. Chakravarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [received message twice] Am I just the only one or does everybody receive messages posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] twice? I find it a bit (I know I am exaggerating) annoying. Is there a way to avoid this? Regards, Marc __

lreadline

Hello all, When linking, ghc-4.08.1 fails due to a ld: fatal: library -lreadline: not found error. Is this a ghc error or should I get that library from somewhere else? Thanks in advance. Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 4903578 University College Cork

Re: My program is crashing - help!

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [HEELP] Are you using RULES? If you are then try turning them all off. Just a thought. Regards, Marc ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/li

Re: Realtime-GC

Simon Peyton Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] : Are there any other GHC users who notice GC pauses? Yes. I do. However, it doesn't really bother me a lot because I am not a real-time person. Happy old year:-). Regards, Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone:

Re: Wish list: RULES, line number and filenames.

Simon Marlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : yes, I should have mentioned that you need to use a cpp macro to achieve the : desired effect. eg. GHC's "ASSERT" macro: : :#define ASSERT(e) if (not (e)) then (assertPanic __FILE__ __LINE__) else Cool. I'll try it the next time I have to debug som

Re: Wish list: RULES, line number and filenames.

Keith Wansbrough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I think Marc wants the line number of the occurrence of rdMap to occur : in the error message, not the line number of the definition of the : rule "lookupFM.range check". Exactly. Regards, Marc -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone

Re: Wish list: RULES, line number and filenames.

Simon Marlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : You're right in saying that errors can be generated at certain points in the : source file, but these points (the beginning of a definition, a case branch, : a type signature, a guard, an 'if' expression, etc.) have nothing to do with : definition vs. cal

Wish list: RULES, line number and filenames.

= error $ concat ["lookupFM :: key not in range in line ",line," in ",file] The function #lookupFM would be the ``real'' lookupFM function. The idea is that after debugging of a function one can just disable a rule in the RULES section. Just a thought. Rega

Wish List: Number of function calls

mpile my program for profiling. BTW: Is there a way to do this with profiling as it is at the moment? Yours, Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 4903578 University College Cork, NUIC | Fax:+353 21 4903113 College Road, Cork, Ireland | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

User Guide (PDF)

Dear ghc-team, Very cool, indeed, the PDF uder guide. Just one small comment. In the table of contents there seems to be some problem with some of the page numbers. Just to let you know. Regards, Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 4903578 University

Re: Mutable Arrays

Michael Weber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] : $ cvs log ghc/lib/std/PrelArr.lhs : : revision 1.19 : date: 2000/03/14 12:16:00; author: simonmar; state: Exp; lines: +57 -57 : Simplfy the mutable array story: : - rename MutableArray to STArray (and similarly : for all oper

Mutable Arrays

Hello again, Sorry for asking again but I can't find the answer in the on line user manual. What does one have to do to use mutable arrays? An old program won't compile anymore with a very recent ghc from CVS. I am using GlaExts. Thanks in advance. Regards, Marc van Dongen --

Mutable Arrays

Hello all, I wanted to recompile some old programs with the latest ghc from CVS. MutableArray wasn't known any more. I do import GlaExts. What am I missing? Regards, Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 4903578 University College Cork, NUIC | Fax:+3

Re: key for fast compilation

your program were to read the values for yFields from a file? Just a thought. Regards, Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 903578 University College Cork, NUIC | Fax: +353 21 903113 College Road, Cork, Ireland | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dongen@cs.ucc.ie: Re: Debugging techniques]

Simon Peyton Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : | This is really a big problem. I have been strugling with it : | myself. The safest thing to do is to use `error' (sad but : | true). That's the only thing I can recommend:-( : : This is a long-standing and embarassing bug which is : alas not quic

[dongen@cs.ucc.ie: Re: Debugging techniques]

Sorry about this. I forgot to group reply. - Forwarded message from Marc van Dongen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:55:12 +0100 From: Marc van Dongen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael A. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Debugging techniq

Re: cvs update -> patch: invalid options

Julian Seward (Intl Vendor) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [patch problems] : This is the one we use: : : cam-02-unx:~/Feb24/fpt/ghc$ patch -v : patch 2.5 : Copyright 1988 Larry Wall : Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. : : It has never given me any problems. I think it is par

Re: cvs update -> patch: invalid options

George Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] : > Should I ignore these or look for a different patch? : My first reaction would be to look for a different CVS, like GNU CVS 1.10. If you're : already using that, get the GNU patch as well (which has many more options than : most patches). Tha

cvs update -> patch: invalid options

Should I ignore these or look for a different patch? Thanks in advance. Regards, Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 903578 University College Cork, NUIC | Fax: +353 21 903113 College Road, Cork, Ireland | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dowloading ghc

about the confusion. Regards, Marc van Dongen

Dowloading ghc

;t find it because the archives don't seem to be updated on a day to day-ish basis. Is there any chance this will be done? I find the archives very useful. Regards, Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 903578 University College Cork, NUIC | Fax: +353 21 9

RULES question

Hello, I want to use rules to avoid the generation of intermediate lists. Therefore I need to know how list-comprehensions of the following form are translated: [f a | a <- as] Is this: map f as? Thanks in advance. Marc van Dongen -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 903

unfolding optimisation

hat usages of the form: h a@(A i) (A _) = f a h (A _) b@(B j) = f b h _ b = f b will *always* be translated into: h (A i) (A _) = g i h (A _) (B j) = g j h _ b = f b or something similar. Thanks in advance. Regards, Marc van Dongen

Re: Dynamic scopes in Haskell

cause of the dependence on the term order. Regards, Marc van Dongen

Re: Haskell and Computer Algebra

[I cc'd this to haskell users since I couldn't find out what the name was of the forum to which the original thread belonged to. Appologies if I have made a mistake and I am upseting somebody.] Jerzy Karczmarczuk: : horrible complexity. Does it answer your question?

Re: Scientific uses of Haskell?

s, see the Theorema project http://www.theorema.org Regards, Marc van Dongen ___ Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 903578 University College Cork, NUIC | Fax: +353 21 903113 College Road, Cork, Ireland | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dear Santa (Error Messages)

Simon PJ: : How about this? Don't say Santa never comes: : : Foo.hs:5: : Ambiguous type variable(s) `a' in the constraint `Eq a' : arising from use of `==' at Foo.hs:5 : In the first argument of `&&', namely `(b == b)' : In a guard for an equation for `example': (b == b) && (a =

Dear Santa (Error Messages)

at a very rapid speed. Any additional information to prune this search space will make the problem of locating actual errors signifficantly more easy. Please note that this is not at all the highest point on my wish list. I only mention it because I think it would improve using ghc. In oth

Exporting RULES

Hi there, I was wondering if somebody could help me with this. I have the habit of exporting everything explicitly from a module. Is there any way of saying that certain RULES are exportable/importable from a module and others not? Regards, Marc

Re: redirecting *.hi

Sergey: One small correction: The sed script should be: sed -e 's/.*\/\([^\/][^\/]*\)\.hs/$(E)\/\1.o, $(E)\/\1.hi/' Of course: :g/.*\/\([^\/][^\/]*\)\.hs/s//$(E)\/\1.o, $(E)\/\1.hi/ in vi should also work. Regards, Marc

Re: redirecting *.hi

. These lines being so numerous, is there any shorter way : to redirect these things? : ( /.hs --> $(E)/.o, $(E)/.hi ) Use sed? sed -e 's/.*\([^\/][^\/]*\)\.hs/$(E)\/\1.o, $(E)\/\1.hi/' Regards, Marc van Dongen

Re: Looking for TkHaskell

re : dead. Try http://yeats.ucc.ie/~dongen/TclHaskell.tar.gz I haven't checked wheter it really works because I haven't got the time. The url may change in a few weeks time but I'll let people know. In the mean time, have fun. Regards, Marc van Dongen

Re: Looking for TkHaskell

ymore. I'll see what I can do to put it on some website publicaly accessible. Having said that, I am rather busy untill the end of this month. Furtermore this is only a favour, so this may take a few days. Contact me by the end of next week if I haven't made any announcements. Regards, Marc van Dongen

Re: diagonalization

0),(1,0),(0,1),(1,1),(2,0),(2,1),(0,2),(1,2),(2,2),(0,3),(0,4),(1,3),(1,4),(2,3),(2,4) ] For [0..4] [0..2] it'll generate: [(0,0),(1,0),(0,1),(1,1),(2,0),(2,1),(0,2),(1,2),(2,2),(3,0),(3,1),(3,2),(4,0),(4,1),(4,2) ] Regards, Marc van Dongen

Re: Proposal for error message improvement

Simon M: : > : We try to please. How about this? : > : : > : Simon : > : : > : : > : Marc.hs:7: : > : Cannot unify the type-signature variable `p' with the type `[]' : > : Expected type: [a] : > : Inferred type: p a1 : > : In the first argument of `ci', namely `a' : > : In the

Re: Proposal for error message improvement

ression: ci a Great! Regards, Marc : : > -Original Message----- : > From: Marc van Dongen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] : > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 6:01 PM : > To: Simon Peyton-Jones : > Subject: Re: Proposal for error message improvement : > : > : > : "I

gmp.info

Dear all, According to the user guide (section 6.2) there should be a document calld gmp.info in the distribution. I tried to locate it, but it is not there. Is there anybody who can tell me where to get it. Regards, Marc van Dongen

Is there anybody who can help me with this

ld be greatly appreciated. Regards, Marc van Dongen Marc van Dongen, Computer Science Dept | phone: +353 21 903084 University College Cork, NUIC | Fax: +353 21 903113 College Road, Cork, Ireland | Email: [

State Interface Description

Dear All, I am hoping that somebody will be able to help me with this before the hollidays are over:-) I am trying to locate a document with a name state_interface or something similar which is being named in some file in the 4-01 distribution. I have tried to locate it but failed. It seems as

how is this implemented

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Re: list of primes benchmark

P1 50K heep | 75K heap| | P2 55K heap | 75K heap| | P3 55K heap | 75K heap| ++-+ All profiled -O versions are equally fast (+/- 2.8 sec). The non-profiled -O versions are equally fast as well (+/- 2.3 sec). Regards, Marc van Dongen

CAFs which aren't CAFs

satisfied with a few KB only. How to narrow this down further? I have cost-centres placed everywhere, but only $gm seems to be Heap-greedy. Thanks in advance, Marc van Dongen Marc van Dongen, Computer Science Dept | phone

Space Leak

aven't found it. If there's anybody with a good suggestion how to continue trying to find it, it would be *GREATLY* appreciated. Helplessly, Marc van Dongen Marc van Dongen, Computer Science Dept | phone: +353 21 90

question

= A > B p q > g :: (Num p,Ord q) => (AB p q) -> Bool > g (B _ _) = A which is the kind of game I really want to play. Thanks in advance. Regards, Marc van Dongen Mare van Dongen | p

class system

Dear Group, I want to define two classes called Group and Ring. The Group class is for Abelian Groups (G,+), i.e. groups with a binary commutative operator ``+'' and an identity element normally denoted by ``0''. The Ring class is meant for cummutative rings (R,+,*) with binary operators ``+''