Re: Application letters at the Haskell workshop: suggestion

2001-09-25 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 15-Sep-2001, Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14 Sep 2001, Mike Gunter wrote: > > > The problem is not a loss of referential transparency but the > > requirement that evaluation order must be specified. E.g. > > what should > > > > raise "left" + raise "right" > > > > return

RE: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2001-09-25 01:53, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: >* I am not a big fan of introducing an extra monad (`GUI' in > this case). It can easily become a pain in programs that > do a lot of "normal" IO as you have to lift all IO > functions to GUI. Heh. I had to do this for JVM-Bridge because

Re: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Matt Harden
"Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" wrote: > * I am not a big fan of introducing an extra monad (`GUI' in > this case). It can easily become a pain in programs that > do a lot of "normal" IO as you have to lift all IO > functions to GUI. Shouldn't GUI be a typeclass (as a subclass of Monad), with

IEEE Conf.on Software Maintenance, Italy,Florence, ICSM2001

2001-09-25 Thread NESI
Dear Colleague I would like to invite you to attend the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001, and associated workshops: IEEE SCAM, IEEE WESS, IEEE WSE, TABOO. FLORENCE, ITALY, 6-10 November 2001 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/icsm2001 ICSM is the major international conference in

RE: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
Given that Haskell98 is not ready for libraries anyway, why are you so concerned about it? A GUI system without concurrency is still incomplete. The haskell library interface story is still pretty weak because there is no consensus about what monad they should expose (and whether they should real

Re: RFC: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Juan Carlos Arévalo Baeza
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:41:06 +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: >> Many applications where GUIs are used require a canvas/scribble field >> with the following basic functionality: >> >>  - set a point in a particular color; if speed is an issue, >>   mapping a 2D-array content to the canvas w

More GHC 5.02 binaries available

2001-09-25 Thread Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)
The web site (http://www.haskell.org/ghc) now has final binary builds for x86-Linux sparc-solaris Windows NT/2K/XP and allegedly 95/98/ME Additionally, the final source tarball is now on the web page. I claim (and earnestly hope) it is suitable for building other binary builds of

Satisfiability and ambiguity

2001-09-25 Thread Carlos Camarão
Folks, I have recently been referred to a paper by Duggan and Ophel, about "Type-checking Multi-parameter type classes" [1]. I think it will be useful to consider the following. -- 1. "Domain-driven unifying overload resolutio

Final CALL: WICS'2002

2001-09-25 Thread Dr. Muhammad Sarfraz
Apologies if you receive multiple copies FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS WICS'2002 ---The Fourth Workshop on Information & Computer Science March 17-18, 2002 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Information & Computer Science Department (KFUPM) in collaboration with IEEE Co

ANNOUNCE: Happy version 1.11

2001-09-25 Thread Simon Marlow
ANNOUNCING Happy 1.11 - The LALR(1) Parser Generator for Haskell - I'm pleased to announce version 1.11 of Happy, the parser generator system for Haskell. This is a minor update from version 1.10, with - a bugfix for usin

ANNOUNCE: Hat and nhc98 version 1.08

2001-09-25 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Hat + nhc98 version 1.08 We are pleased to announce a new release of Hat and the nhc98 compiler. This is a stable release, containing many bugfixes in both the compiler and the Hat tracing and debugging tools. If you have not

RE: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
"Simon Peyton-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > | * Start from the API of GTK+ as a base line: > > That's fine by me. But can I suggest that the task force be sure > to read the details of the Clean GUI library design. Peter Aachten > (while visiting Cambridge) rendered a good chunk of it i

Re: RFC: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
The promised GUI mailing list is now available: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/gui Manuel ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: RFC: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Ashley Yakeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > At 2001-09-24 05:44, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: > > > *** The GUI Library Task Force Strategy Proposal *** > > It's worth pointing out that I'm covering much of the same ground with my > bridge to the Java VM. > > http://sourceforge.net/project

Re: RFC: GUI Library Task Force

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
"Ch. A. Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > Basically, I like the suggestions, but want to clarify: > > > * The library focuses on graphical *user interfaces* (ie, > > buttons, menus, scrollbars, selection lists, etc) as > > opposed to drawing and animation routines. > > Many application