RE: Contexts differ in length

2005-05-27 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| A while ago I sent an email to the glasgow haskell users maillinglist to | explain how the Contexts differ in length feature (or bug :-)) | restricted me in writing a haskell application. I was hoping for a | reply, however I didn't receive one (yet). It's a sensible suggestion. Until now no

Re: Contexts differ in length

2005-05-27 Thread Robert van Herk
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | A while ago I sent an email to the glasgow haskell users maillinglist to | explain how the Contexts differ in length feature (or bug :-)) | restricted me in writing a haskell application. I was hoping for a | reply, however I didn't receive one (yet). It's a

Re: explicit signatures and default for integer literals

2005-05-27 Thread Dinko Tenev
*Main :type fromList fromList :: (Ord k) = [(k, a)] - Map k a *Main :type new new :: (New a b) = a - b The type of new probably accounts for the difference (even though it still makes me wonder what the big deal is :) Using functional dependencies seems to fix it, i.e.: class New a b | a - b

RE: Why hIsEOF wait for completely full buffer while hGetChar doesn't ?

2005-05-27 Thread Simon Marlow
On 27 May 2005 03:33, Nobuo Yamashita wrote: I am curious about reason why in GHC hIsEOF blocks in BlockBuffering mode while hGetChar doesn't. I wrote following three programs for an experiment. -- echo0.hs module Main where import System.IO main = hSetBuffering stdin

Re: Are new sequences really O(1)?

2005-05-27 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
[moved from libraries to glasgow-haskell-users] Ross Paterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GCs that happen during this process will be more expensive, as they have to scan the stack. I suspect that GC costs are swamping everything else for large n. I just tweaked the implementation GC in my

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: lambdabot 3.0

2005-05-27 Thread Samuel Bronson
On 26/05/05, Donald Bruce Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lambdabot was written by Andrew Bromage, and is now a community project. lambdabot 3.0 would not have been possible without the help of the #haskell irc community -- this release features more than 450 patches from 14 contributors.

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: lambdabot 3.0

2005-05-27 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
naesten: On 26/05/05, Donald Bruce Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lambdabot was written by Andrew Bromage, and is now a community project. lambdabot 3.0 would not have been possible without the help of the #haskell irc community -- this release features more than 450 patches from 14

[Haskell] Job for functional programmer

2005-05-27 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Title: position details Heres a job advert for a functional programmer to work at Credit Suisse First Boston. Nowadays, banks are doing lots of interesting things with computers, and they are pretty knowledgeable about programming languages too. This modelling and analytics group, who I

[Haskell] idea's for a 3D modeller in Haskell

2005-05-27 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Hello, I'm planning to start up a project to build a 3D modelling application in Haskell. I don't know which direction I would want to follow, hence this mail. I've set up a small wiki page @ http://haskell.org/hawiki/H3D. I'm looking for neat idea's, existing projects, articles,