long delayed messages [was Re: tuple component functions]

2003-01-02 Thread Tim Barbour
Vinicius Callegari writes: [...] > Tim, watch out, your date is in the past. You messages might not be read... Thanks for the warning. The messages were indeed sent in the past, and took an unusually long time to be delivered! Apparently a few messages got queued somewhere by my MTA (perhaps be

Haskell Persistence

2001-12-06 Thread Tim Barbour
Vorin, Michael writes: > I am interested in pursuing practical development of persistence in Haskell. > To this end I have been looking for code/systems which have been developed > previously to build upon - not wishing to reinvent the wheel. I am implementing persistent memory for Linux (i.e.

Re: Enum class

2001-10-23 Thread Tim Barbour
Lennart Augustsson writes: > "Ch. A. Herrmann" wrote: > > > (1) What is the justification for the types "Float" and "Double" > > to be members of the type class "Enum"? This might induce students > > to use floating point values as counters in arithmetic > > sequences. > > An