[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: new release of Hugs

2006-05-15 Thread Ross Paterson
We are pleased to announce a new major release of Hugs, including an installer for Windows and a new WinHugs interface (both contributed by Neil Mitchell). It is available from the Hugs page: http://www.haskell.org/hugs/ At present two sizes of the Windows distribution and two sizes of s

[Haskell] Re: Strange behaviour of forkIO threads

2006-05-15 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Monday, May 15, 2006, 2:04:38 PM, you wrote: It sounds like you are just falling foul of the fact that GHC only context switches when a thread is doing allocation; if it is sitting in a loop not doing any allocation then you won't see a context switch. In GHC 6.6 you'll

Re: [Haskell] My brain just exploded

2006-05-15 Thread Otakar Smrz
Hi :) I have recently raised the same question under the following headline: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Existentially-quantified constructors: Hugs is fine, GHC is not? There are some replies already, but I still do not think such a dual behaviour of pattern matching in case/let/whe

Re: [Haskell] Re: Strange behaviour of forkIO threads

2006-05-15 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Monday, May 15, 2006, 2:04:38 PM, you wrote: > It sounds like you are just falling foul of the fact that GHC only > context switches when a thread is doing allocation; if it is sitting in > a loop not doing any allocation then you won't see a context switch. In > GHC 6.6 you'll be a

[Haskell] Call for Participation: PLAS 2006

2006-05-15 Thread Steve Zdancewic
Call for Participation PLAS 2006 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/plas06.html

[Haskell] Re: Strange behaviour of forkIO threads

2006-05-15 Thread Simon Marlow
Maurizio Monge wrote: Hi, i used forkIO to write a 'por' (parallel or) implementation (just a proof of concept), arguments are evaluated in different threads and as soon as one of the threads returns true the other thread is killed and true is returned. If both threads return false the result of

[Haskell] FORMAL METHODS 2006: Call for Participation

2006-05-15 Thread Simon Marlow
[posting on behalf of Jeffery Zucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] FM'06: 14TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FORMAL METHODS August 21 - 27, 2006 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://fm06.mcmaster.ca/

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Milfoh image to texture loading library

2006-05-15 Thread Lemmih
On 5/14/06, Maurizio Monge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The design rationale for the OpenGL/GLUT/OpenAL/ALUT packages is that they > should exactly mirror the standardize native API behind them in a > Haskell-friendly way. GLUT is only a simple, portable GUI for OpenGL-based > program (handling