Re: [Haskell-cafe] Off-topic: Mathematics

2011-08-29 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
On 29 August 2011 09:34, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: This is fairly wildly off-topic but... does anybody know of a good forum where I can ask questions about mathematics and get authoritative answers? Apart from math.stackexchange.com and mathoverflow.net, which people have

Re: How to install GhC on a Mac without registering?

2011-06-10 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
On 10 June 2011 12:53, Lars Viklund z...@acc.umu.se wrote: I disagree with the assumption that OS X people are quick to upgrade. The last set of figures I saw on adoption were something along the lines of 15% on 10.6, with almost a third of the users on 10.4 and below, taken from some article

Re: [Haskell-cafe] I cannot find the module Data.Numbers.Primes

2011-05-17 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
cabal install primes? http://hackage.haskell.org/package/primes https://github.com/sebfisch/primes ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: zeno-0.2

2011-04-28 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
Hi Will, I attended your presentation on Zeno at AngloHaskell last year and was really intrigued; it's great to see you've got a release up on Hackage, and I look forward to trying it out. Are you planning on making your source code repository publicly available on GitHub or somewhere similar? If

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trouble with currying and uncurrying...

2011-04-25 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
On 25 April 2011 14:11, Angel de Vicente ang...@iac.es wrote: OK, I have tried it and it works, but I don't understand the syntax for curry. Until now I have encountered only functions that take the same number of arguments as the function definition or less (partial application), but this

Re: git repos for testing (was: Re: RFC: migrating to git)

2011-01-13 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
On 13 January 2011 15:30, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: We should set up a git daemon at some point as it's much more efficient that pulling over HTTP. As of version 1.6.6, Git is much more efficient over HTTP than it used to be. http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html In

[Haskell-cafe] Installing snap-server with gnutls on OS X with Homebrew

2010-12-21 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
Hi -café, I installed Snap 0.3 last night on my Mac, and had some problems getting it to build with SSL support. This is just a quick note of the extra flags I had to pass in when installing it in case someone else has a setup similar to mine. These instructions presume that you are using the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] In what language...?

2010-10-26 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
On 26 October 2010 19:29, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: I don't even know the difference between a proposition and a predicate. A proposition is an abstraction from sentences, the idea being that e.g. Snow is white, Schnee ist weiß and La neige est blanche are all sentences

Re: [Haskell-cafe] In what language...?

2010-10-26 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
On 26 October 2010 20:43, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Propositional logic is quite a simple logic, where the building blocks are atomic formulae and the usual logical connectives. An example of a well-formed formula might be P → Q. It tends to be the first system taught

Re: [Haskell-cafe] recommendations for reading list?

2010-09-08 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
2010/9/9 Николай Кудасов crazy.fiz...@gmail.com: Consider this book: Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (Foundations of Computing) -- Benjamin C.Pierce Hi David, Николай Кудасов is quite right—Pierce's book is excellent. Apart from being a good introduction to category theory,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc in macports

2010-08-12 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
On 11 August 2010 15:49, Ozgur Akgun ozgurak...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I'd like to use the macports version, if the ghc version there was resonably recent (having 2 versions, a stable and an edge could be a good idea?) You could use Homebrew instead. That has a fairly up-to-date version

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [web-devel] statically compiled css

2010-08-06 Thread Benedict Eastaugh
On 6 August 2010 09:19, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: After looking into sass a little bit, I've decided I like it ;). I see the following benefits of implementing something sass-like in Haskell via quasi-quotation: * Compile-time guarantee of well-formedness. * The speed