Re: unsafeInterleaveIO ordering

2003-08-31 Thread Robert Ennals
[snip] > If you're using an eager haskell implementation which does some speculative > evaluation of things that look cheap and that you might want to evaluate, the > answer is probably no. (Because, having decided to do some speculative work > in the absence of a demand, it might decide it h

Re: Haskell for non-Haskell's sake

2003-08-31 Thread Graham Klyne
At 17:39 29/08/03 -0700, Hal Daume III wrote: Hi fellow Haskellers, I'm attempting to get a sense of the topology of the Haskell community. Based on the Haskell Communities & Activities reports, it seems that the large majority of people use Haskell for Haskell's sake. If you use Haskell for a pu

Re: Haskell for non-Haskell's sake

2003-08-31 Thread b . i . mills
I do research into parsing algorthms, and find that I can convert the theory into practice most easily in Haskell. A lot of the material is just (careful) transliteration of the original definitions. And more generally I go along with Vincenzo (aka Nick Name), > I use haskell when I have to write