Re: FFI tutorial??

2001-03-10 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Ronald Legere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > Does anyone know of a tutorial introduction to the > FFI? How does one go about getting started with this > thing? Any simple examples? Unfortunately, there is no tutorial style text about the FFI yet - I agree that it is necessary to have one, but nob

Re: newbie

2001-03-10 Thread Lars Henrik Mathiesen
> From: Joe English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:34:28 -0800 > The relevant category for Haskell is the one in which > objects are types and arrows are functions. The identity > arrow for object 't' is 'id' instantiated at type 'id :: t -> t', > and composition of arrows is fu

FFI tutorial??

2001-03-10 Thread Ronald Legere
Does anyone know of a tutorial introduction to the FFI? How does one go about getting started with this thing? Any simple examples? I just want to be able to do simple things (mostly access a c library from haskell... ok maybe not trivial :) ) I would be happy if I could just call c programs with

Re: newbie

2001-03-10 Thread Joe English
Eduardo Ochs wrote: > Frank Atanassow wrote: > > G Murali wrote (on 09-03-01 00:43 +): > > > I'm new to this monads stuff.. can you tell me what it is simply ? > > A monad on category C is a monoid in the category of endofunctors on C. > > Is that simple enough? ;) > > Uh-oh. I'm a junior cat

Re: newbie

2001-03-10 Thread Leonid Bouriakovsky
Perhaps, this paper will help: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/62964.html >Eduardo Ochs wrote: > >>Frank Atanassow wrote: >> >> A monad on category C is a monoid in the category of endofunctors on C. >> >> Is that simple enough? ;) > >Uh-oh. I'm a junior categorist and toposopher and I confess th

Re: newbie

2001-03-10 Thread Eduardo Ochs
Frank Atanassow wrote: > G Murali wrote (on 09-03-01 00:43 +): > > I'm new to this monads stuff.. can you tell me what it is simply ? > > an example would be highly appreciated.. i want it is very very > > simple terms please.. > > A monad on category C is a monoid in the category of endofunct

Re: newbie

2001-03-10 Thread Eduardo Ochs
Frank Atanassow wrote: > G Murali wrote (on 09-03-01 00:43 +): > > I'm new to this monads stuff.. can you tell me what it is simply ? > > an example would be highly appreciated.. i want it is very very > > simple terms please.. > > A monad on category C is a monoid in the category of endofunct