Calling ghc dll's with MSVC++ code

2002-12-03 Thread Mauricio Carvalho
Hey! I need to call haskell DLL's from a c++ program, and this C++ is written in Microsoft's Visual C++ 6.0 I created the DLL sing the directives given at ghc user's  guide (11.3 and 11.4) and created the dll. To create a .lib import file, I linked with the option -optdll--output-lib -optdl

Re: Design patterns in Haskell

2002-12-03 Thread Frank Atanassow
Andrew J Bromage wrote (on 03-12-02 09:52 +1100): > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:26:06AM +0100, Johannes Waldmann wrote: > > > well I love design patterns, it's just that in Haskell-land > > they are called higher-order functions, or polymorphic functions, etc. > > Can I safely translate that as "

Mathematics and Software Engineering (was slide: useful function? )

2002-12-03 Thread Markus . Schnell
> > There's too much mathematics in it, I'm only an engineer... ;-) Perhaps I should rephrase: > There's too much mathematics in it, I'm not a mathematician > reminds of what I think is one of the biggest problems with > conventional > software development: the lack of appreciable mathematics i

RE: AW: slide: useful function?

2002-12-03 Thread David Bergman
Hi, Bill. I agree 90% with you in your questioning the adequateness of trying to incorporate design patterns in Haskell, and the actual productive use of them in other languages as well. But, I must defend design patterns, and Haskell, a bit... William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002

Re: Design patterns in Haskell

2002-12-03 Thread matt hellige
[Frank Atanassow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > Furthermore, design patterns come with a set of informal hints about when and > where to apply the pattern. The notion of HOF is, of course, completely > neutral about this, except insofar as the type system forces you to provide a > HOF where a function i

Re: Design patterns in Haskell

2002-12-03 Thread Keith Wansbrough
> size. while there's really no substitute for experience, i really > believe we could benefit from some patterns. There was a list of design patterns for Haskell on the Wiki (back in the days when it worked): http://haskell.org/wiki/wiki?CommonHaskellIdioms --KW 8-) -- Keith Wansbrough <[EMAIL

Re: Mathematics and Software Engineering (was slide: useful function? )

2002-12-03 Thread Frank Atanassow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 03-12-02 18:18 +0100): > Perhaps I should rephrase: > > There's too much mathematics in it, I'm not a mathematician ..and later... > > lot of mathematics. One of the things I like about FP is that it > > demands more mathematical sophistication of its practitioners, whi

Re: AW: slide: useful function?

2002-12-03 Thread Andrew J Bromage
G'day all. Just to clarify... On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:42:21PM -0500, David Bergman wrote: > But, design patterns are clearly overestimated as a tool for (indirect) > code production, you are right in that. Absolutely agreed. Design patterns are little more than: - A common language

Re: Design patterns in Haskell

2002-12-03 Thread Ralf Laemmel
I shamelessly copy from the abstract of [1]: We contend that design patterns can be an effective means of consolidating and communicating program construction expertise for functional programming just as they have proven to be in object-oriented programming. One might suppose that the powerful ab

Re: The Haskell 98 Report

2002-12-03 Thread Carl R. Witty
"Claus Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, as a small token, I've revised my original plan and will now buy one > of the printed versions (I shall also place higher priority on submitting > to JFP in the future;-). Let's support forward-looking publishers! > > Thanks, Simon, and thanks, Con