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

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.

bug in libdir setting in ghc mk/config.mk

2001-11-05 Thread Tim Barbour
Hi, My recent build of the ghc5-5.02 Debian package produced an unusable compiler (because libdir was missing a trailing /ghc-5.02. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I tracked the problem down, as follows. The problem occurs with make version 3.77, but not with make version 3.79.1 . Whether it will occur

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. And what's wrong with

GHC import bug (# 231631)

2001-10-20 Thread Tim Barbour
I'm sending this to the list, because I did not get much satisfaction from the SourceForge bug-tracking tool. I have just encountered a GHC bug similar to the one numbered 231631 on SourceForge. I have some further observations about it, and a small tar file (attached) showing how to reproduce