Welcome to issue 215 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in
the Haskell community. This release covers the week of February 5 to
11, 2012.
You can find the HTML version of this issue at:
http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2012/02/haskell-weekly-news-issue-215.html
Quotes of the Week
I wrote a wiki page on how I have successfully done several acid-state 0.5
to 0.6 migrations:
http://code.google.com/p/happstack/wiki/AcidState05to06
It's not very pretty. But it works. Basically you just created SafeCopy 0.5
*and* 0.6 instances for all your types, and then run the migrate functi
Greetings,
With acid-state-0.6, you can use regular Haskell data structures
without worrying about data loss or durability. Your state will simply
always be available to you even after software crashes or power
outages.
Important: acid-state-0.6 is not immediately backwards compatible with
previo
Hi list,
I am pleased to announce the first release of hmatrix-syntax [1], which
provides quasiquoters to provide a nice syntax for vectors and matrices in
Alberto Ruiz's excellent matrix package[2].
Examples:
> {-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes, ViewPatterns #-}
>
> import Data.Packed
> import Data.Pa
Hello list,
I am pleased to announce a new release of the AppleScript package[1], which
supports compiling and running AppleScript code from Haskell, and also supports
calling back into Haskell from AppleScript. This release has many new features,
including:
* AppleScript can now call back int
