Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Data.CompactString 0.1 - my attempt at aUni code ByteString

2007-02-09 Thread Steve Schafer
en fail to realize how much careful thought went into their design. You can jump into the middle of a UTF-8 string, and you'll need to move fewer than a code point's worth of bytes to resynchronize with the reference frame, for example. UTF-8 is also very robust with respect to data corrup

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Phooey -- a Functional UI library for Haske ll

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Schafer
those function invocations would ripple through the system (and eventually to the output widgets). Of course, it would likely be "functional" in name only, as I suspect that there would rarely be occasion to use functions whose return type is anything other than IO (). Steve Sch

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Phooey -- a Functional UI library for Haske ll

2006-12-13 Thread Steve Schafer
"). There are still some sticky bits, because there's always the possibility that the order in which the connections are wired up will have an effect on whether the final contraption works as expected, but it should be possible to avoid problems in that regard with the addition o

Re: [Haskell] Network advice needed

2006-03-31 Thread Steve Schafer
e a little more careful to make sure that they're saved on the client machines instead of at the server; if you use the system registry for that, then it pretty much automatically takes care of those details, too. Steve Schafer Fenestra Technologi

Re: [Haskell] for large x, log (x::Integer) :: Double

2004-06-30 Thread Steve Schafer
isor and the logarithm base appropriately. The idea is that you want to choose your initial divisor so that it is a power of the base, where the value of that base is chosen to make the process of computing the quotient q efficent and accurate. Steve Schafer Fenestra Technologies C