Re: darcs patch: initial, very incomplete tags generator (and 16 more)

2006-10-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
> Hi, > > since you both only mention hasktags as an alternative, I > wonder how ghctags relates to :ctags/:etags in ghci? > > http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/users_guide/ghci-commands.html Doco suggests that this code is just calling hasktags. How would I know for sure? > Norman

Re: darcs patch: initial, very incomplete tags generator (and 16 more)

2006-10-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
> Hello nr, > > Saturday, October 14, 2006, 12:30:54 AM, you wrote: > > The ultimate goal is to replace hasktags with > > a tags generator based on GHC-as-a-library. > > is this working at this time? how i can download/use it? It works, but there are two serious problems: 1. Incor

Re: [Haskell] GHC Error question

2006-12-05 Thread Norman Ramsey
> [redirecting to ghc users] > > It looks like a splendid error to me. I'm not sure if you meant the error or the message was splendid :-) I yelled for help because my usual strategy failed. That strategy is 1. Remove the type annotation. 2. Get ghci to tell me what the 'right type' is.

Re: [Haskell] GHC Error question

2006-12-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
sible fix', and indeed instead suggesting 'possible fix: remove the type signature from f'? > > Simon > > | -Original Message- From: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Norman Ramsey Sent: 06 December 2006 >

inlining higher-order-functions?

2006-12-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
I've just discovered the {-# INLINE #-} pragma, but it's not doing as much for me as I had hoped. My example is complicated, so let me present a simpler analogy. Suppose I defined compose :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> (a -> c) compose f g = \x -> f (g x) I can easily persuade GHC to inline 'compose

Re: ghc 6.6 Debian packages

2007-07-05 Thread Norman Ramsey
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:15:03AM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: > > Hi, > > > > our developers that have a debian system (i.e Ubuntu) and want to > > compile our sources with ghc complain that they have to install many > > extra library packages one after another. > > > > Compiling fa

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-09 Thread Norman Ramsey
As a very part-time, temporarily inactive GHC developer I will offer some opinions which should carry no weight: * When I saw the announcement, I cheered! Last fall, I lost 2 weeks of a 9-week visit to darcs hell. While the alleged features may be alluring, the software simply doesn't

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-10 Thread Norman Ramsey
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 06:56:23PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: > > > > * Our long-term goal should be to get the *entire* Haskell > > development community to agree on a version-control system---one > > that is not darcs. We should expect t

Re: Version control systems

2008-08-12 Thread Norman Ramsey
> > I see an increasing problem in that every community comes up with > > their own package system, instead of reusing existing frameworks. > > That's because there are no usable existing frameworks. I couldn't agree more. I have been working on this problem off and on since 1993, and the

Re: Build system idea

2008-08-12 Thread Norman Ramsey
> Simon PJ and I had a talk about the build system earlier today, I thought > I'd float the idea we discussed... > I propose we do this: > > - Extract the code from Cabal that generates Makefiles, and treat it as > part of the GHC build system. Rather than generating a Makefile >

Re: Should exhaustiveness testing be on by default?

2009-05-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
> ... exhaustive pattern checking might well help out a lot of > people coming from untyped backgrounds... Or even people from typed backgrounds. I worship at the altar of exhaustiveness checking. > Anyone know why it isn't the default? I have been bleating to GHC Central about the generally

Re: Should exhaustiveness testing be on by default?

2009-05-20 Thread Norman Ramsey
> >  > ... exhaustive pattern checking might well help out a lot of > >  > people coming from untyped backgrounds... > > > > Or even people from typed backgrounds.  I worship at the altar of > > exhaustiveness checking. > > Do you really want exhaustiveness, or is what you actually want saf

trouble with Trac wiki

2010-03-23 Thread Norman Ramsey
I'm trying to log into the trac wiki, and I'm logging in OK, but it says my privileges are restricted until I verify my email address. However, the promised opportunity to verify never arrives. I've checked the spam folder and various other places---not finding it. I could be doing something stupid

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-10 Thread Norman Ramsey
> It's time to consider again whether we should migrate GHC development > from darcs to (probably) git. I'd be thrilled to see GHC migrate to git, and I'd be much more likely to make new contributions to the back end. The rest of this email contains observations about my own experience with so