[Haskell] Functor => Applicative => Monad

2010-12-14 Thread John Smith
I would like to formally propose that Monad become a subclass of Applicative, with a call for consensus by 1 February. The change is described on the wiki at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functor-Applicative-Monad_Proposal, and ticketed at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4834. As th

Re: [Haskell] Functor => Applicative => Monad

2010-12-14 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
John Smith wrote: > I would like to formally propose that Monad become a subclass of > Applicative, with a call for consensus by 1 February. I would prefer that we have some proposal like class aliases implemented before we start fundamental restructuring of basic type classes. This would help to

Re: [Haskell] Please help me to reconstruct the Yarrow website! Re: New haskell.org server

2010-12-14 Thread Frank Rosemeier
Dear Mr. Hudak, I understand the need for a change with respect to the Haskell server and would be very grateful if you will run the old server also in January 2011. (Recently I have written some mails concerning the migration problems to Haskell.org.) Than I can try to transfer the Yarrow

[Haskell] More work to be done re: haskell.org move?

2010-12-14 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:35:22AM -0800, Don Stewart wrote: > Hi Paul, > > The move is complete. There are no haskell.org services running there > now. You could shut down the machine in December if you wish. Everyone keeps saying "the move is complete" but I'm not sure it's really true. I unde

Re: [Haskell] More work to be done re: haskell.org move?

2010-12-14 Thread Axel Simon
Hi Brent, On 14.12.2010, at 16:02, Brent Yorgey wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:35:22AM -0800, Don Stewart wrote: Hi Paul, The move is complete. There are no haskell.org services running there now. You could shut down the machine in December if you wish. Everyone keeps saying "the move is

[Haskell] missing http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/intro/intro.html

2010-12-14 Thread Ben Clifford
it was just pointed out to me that http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/intro/intro.html is missing, which is linked from the tutorial page. I don't own that page but I'm forwarding the observation here in case someone else thinks they do... Ben -- http://www.hawaga.org.uk/ben/

Re: [Haskell] More work to be done re: haskell.org move?

2010-12-14 Thread Ross Paterson
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:02:29AM -0500, Brent Yorgey wrote: > Everyone keeps saying "the move is complete" but I'm not sure it's > really true. I understand in theory that people were given ample time > and warning to migrate content, but in practice it has not worked. > Off the top of my head I

[Haskell] Post positive reviews

2010-12-14 Thread Eugene Zola
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Re: [Haskell] More work to be done re: haskell.org move?

2010-12-14 Thread Claus Reinke
Everyone keeps saying "the move is complete" but I'm not sure it's really true. I understand in theory that people were given ample time and warning to migrate content, but in practice it has not worked. .. Are there any plans to copy over things like this? Relying on "maintiners" to do it has o

Re: [Haskell] More work to be done re: haskell.org move?

2010-12-14 Thread Henrik Nilsson
Hi, > Then posting the list of missing URLs here might alert those > who care about them (or not, but at least fewer things would > disappear silently). OK, here are a few broken links I happen to care about: Old Haskell Workshop proceedings, including the very first one. They are on the Haskel

Re: [Haskell] More work to be done re: haskell.org move?

2010-12-14 Thread Ross Paterson
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:48:47PM +, Henrik Nilsson wrote: > Also, the www.haskell.org/yampa page is gone. Very out of date, > no doubt, but even so. Sorry, probably a FAQ, but this move > has essentially passed me by: any way I can get at the old > content before the old server is decommissi

[Haskell] I'm a beginner --- struggling with the SimpleJSON example from Real World Haskell

2010-12-14 Thread dhjdhj
I'm sure this question has been asked many times but I have not been able to find it anywhere. I have written the code below into Lekseh directly from the RWH book. However, I always get the error parse error on input 'getString' and the line number refers to the type declaration for getSt

Re: [Haskell] I'm a beginner --- struggling with the SimpleJSON example from Real World Haskell

2010-12-14 Thread Patrick LeBoutillier
Hi, Make sure the line data JValue ... is not indented. I should start at the first column. Patrick On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:28 PM, dhjdhj wrote: > > > > I'm sure this question has been asked many times but I have not been able to > find it anywhere. > > > I have written the code below i

Re: [Haskell] I'm a beginner --- struggling with the SimpleJSON example from Real World Haskell

2010-12-14 Thread David Jameson
OMG --- that was it --- I can't tell you how many hours I have been wrestling with this. Thank you so much for the quick response. I was aware that Haskell required indentation for some things (and I'm a fan of indentation) but I didn't realize it required NO indentation for some things --- I

Re: [Haskell] I'm a beginner --- struggling with the SimpleJSON example from Real World Haskell

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Tuesday 14 December 2010 22:44:23, David Jameson wrote: > OMG --- that was it --- I can't tell you how many hours I have been > wrestling with this. > > Thank you so much for the quick response. > > I was aware that Haskell required indentation for some things (and I'm a > fan of indentation) bu

Re: [Haskell] Please help me to reconstruct the Yarrow website! Re: New haskell.org server

2010-12-14 Thread Taral
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Hudak, Paul wrote: > My research group is paying $200/month to maintain the old haskell.org at > Yale, and we cannot continue doing this indefinitely -- indeed, I had hoped > that we could have turned off the machine by now.  I propose that we shut > down the ol