[Haskell] Haskell' Status Report

2006-09-27 Thread Doug McIlroy
One thing jumped out at me from the status report: everything was "add", which reminded me of many old languages designed by accretion. Are the new facilities so perfectly orthogonal as not to subsume anything that was already there? Are none of them simply relaxations of previous limitatations?

[Haskell] Haskell Standard: Please email me if you want to join the committee.

2006-09-27 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings, As announced at the Haskell Workshop, the Haskell Prime process is running another committee selection round. We are specifically looking for people to write sections of the Haskell Report for the "definitely in" and "probably in" proposals, as described in: http://hackage.haskell.org

[Haskell] Haskell' Status Report

2006-09-27 Thread Isaac Jones
Ravi Nanavati has very helpfully put together a status report for the Haskell Prime process. Please see this link, or read the pasted text below: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Status' peace, isaac Summary: Since the Haskell Workshop last year, the Haskell community has

[Haskell] Re: compiler-independent core libraries infrastructure

2006-09-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:20:36PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > As it happens I was working on getting GHC to use cabal to build base > et al on the plane the other day, and I had a brief look at this. See my comment in http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/710 for the results of my long