Re: micro-rant

2001-08-09 Thread Florian Hars
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:12:46AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > I'd like to add my vote for this. Its removal would result in a nicer language > specification, and would remove a obstacle that novice programmers sometimes > stumble over. Yes, getting a sytax error if I write (x-1)*(-x-1) is a r

Re: Library for URLs?

2000-09-04 Thread Florian Hars
Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > URI is an instance of Show, so you can just apply 'show' to get a string. You are one of those persons who eat the cooking book, are you? He wanted a string representation of the resource identified by the URI. :-) Yours, Florian

Parsing include files

2000-08-21 Thread Florian Hars
I am trying to parse some files using the parsec combinator library and am stuck in some kind of monad mismatch or general blindness or so. For the sake of this argument, the documents to be parsed are just a list of things: document :: Parser [Thing] Parsing the things with thing :: Parser Thi

Re: The importance and relevance of FP

2000-08-18 Thread Florian Hars
Doug Ransom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > none will miss spending a couple of weeks at the end of the > development cycle trying to find a memory leak. Apart from the fact that they are called space leaks, a lazy functional language will not help them with this problem. It may rather aggravate it

Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

2000-08-09 Thread Florian Hars
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk) writes: > Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:17:15 +0200, Erik Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > > Haskell# > This is what worries me: modifying a bunch of languages to make them > incompatible with the rest of the world How did they say on segfault.org: Micros

Re: Haskell libraries, support status, and range of applicability(was:Haskell jobs)

2000-07-26 Thread Florian Hars
Olaf Chitil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The latter is exactly what I do and how 99% of the information about > tools and libraries were collected. The main page of haskell.org asks > for information about projects, compilers, papers, classes, or anything > else but we hardly receive any. This i