[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 203

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 203 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of October 2 to 8, 2011. You can find a HTML version of this issue at: http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/haskell-weekly-news-issue-203.html Announcements Eric Y

[Haskell] ANN: global-variables-1.0

2011-10-12 Thread Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
Hi, I am pleased to announce the first public release of global-variables. A package providing a global namespace for IORefs, MVars, and TVars. Hackage URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/global-variables-1.0 Source: http://bitbucket.org/jmg/global-variables/ Description: ---

[Haskell] Chalmers FP is hiring 2 Assistant Professors in Functional Programming: deadline 2011-10-18

2011-10-12 Thread John Hughes
We're recruiting Assistant Professors to the FP group for our new Strategic Research project "RAW FP". Come and work with us! Two-body problem? We've got two jobs! Deadline coming up on the 18th. John Hughes http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/cse/pmwiki.php/FP/FP https://site1.reachmee.com/I003/cha

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: vector-bytestring-0.0.0.0

2011-10-12 Thread Bas van Dijk
All your ByteString are belong to us... Hello, I'm pleased to announce the beta release of vector-bytestring. This library provides the type ByteString which is defined as a type synonym for a storable Vector of Word8s (from the vector package): type ByteString = Data.Vector.Storable.Vector Wo