Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: reference 0.1

2010-09-06 Thread Bas van Dijk
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Bas van Dijk wrote: > They do allow some now finishing my sentence... The parameterization of α and β in Readable and Writable do allow some nice instances like: instance Readable (TMVar α) STM (Maybe α) where read = TMVar.tryTakeTMVar instance Writable (TMV

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: reference 0.1

2010-09-06 Thread Bas van Dijk
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > Reference is class which generalizes references and monads they exists > in. It means that IORef, STRef and others can be accessed by common > interface. > > Currently it is of form: > > class Reference r m where > > 1. There was a proposa

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: reference 0.1

2010-09-06 Thread Maciej Piechotka
Reference is class which generalizes references and monads they exists in. It means that IORef, STRef and others can be accessed by common interface. Currently it is of form: class Reference r m where 1. There was a proposal to rename the class to MonadRef or MonadReference. IMHO it would imply

[Haskell] ANN: hledger 0.12.1

2010-09-06 Thread Simon Michael
I'm pleased to announce hledger 0.12.1, with a new web interface and bugfixes. Thanks to Ben Boeckel and David Patrick for their help this time around. Installation docs, linux/mac/windows binaries and more are at http://hledger.org and http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ hledger . Release

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: countable-0.1

2010-09-06 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 03:54 -0700, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > countable: Countable, Searchable, Finite, Empty classes. > >class Countable, for countable types >class AtLeastOneCountable, for countable types that have at least one > value >class InfiniteCountable, for infinite countable

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: LibZip 0.1, BSD library to read and write zip archives

2010-09-06 Thread Sergey Astanin
Dear Haskellers, I am glad to announce that LibZip, a major remake of Haskell bindings to libzip library, is now available [1]. As far as I know, LibZip the only non-GPL library for Haskell to manipulate zip archives (zip-archive library is GPLv2, LibZip is BSD). LibZip is also reasonably fast wi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-06 Thread Graham Klyne
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | As membership of "the Haskell community" is not well-defined, and voting | would potentially be open to abuse if anyone were able to vote, we | propose that the committee should choose their replacements from open | nominations. I agree with the problem, and I think y

[Haskell] AngloHaskell 2010 - Final Reminder + Wi-Fi Sign-Up

2010-09-06 Thread Derek Wright
AngloHaskell 2010 is this week! AngloHaskell 2010 - 5th Annual Haskell Meeting in England Friday September 10th and Saturday September 11th, 2010 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/AngloHaskell/2010 AngloHaskell is a free gathering of all people Haskell-related

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: countable-1.0

2010-09-06 Thread Nicolas Pouillard
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:46:18 -0700, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > countable: Countable, Searchable, Finite, Empty classes. > >class Countable, for countable types >class AtLeastOneCountable, for countable types that have at least one > value >class InfiniteCountable, for infinite countable

RE: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-06 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Ian et al | To fix this problem, we propose that we create a "haskell.org | committee", which is responsible for answering these sorts of questions, | although for some questions they may choose to poll the community at | large if they think appropriate. I think that's an excellent idea. I think