RE: SUGGESTION: haskell-announce mailing list

2002-05-13 Thread Simon Marlow
> yeah, I really like this because oftentimes an announcment > will incite a > discussion, this way people can reply to the announcement on > the haskell > list if they want to discuss it and the people who dont care about > anouncements can just stay on the announce list. > > I Would also be

Re: SUGGESTION: haskell-announce mailing list

2002-05-11 Thread Jorge Adriano
> > I like the actual haskell/haskell-cafe situation. > At least it seemed reasonable to me that many more people would be > interested in discussing proposed changes to the Haskell 98 spec. than > there are in wading through various newbie questions. I think the current > haskell/haskell-cafe d

Re: SUGGESTION: haskell-announce mailing list

2002-05-11 Thread Mark Carroll
On Sat, 11 May 2002, Jorge Adriano wrote: (snip) > I like the actual haskell/haskell-cafe situation. At least it seemed reasonable to me that many more people would be interested in discussing proposed changes to the Haskell 98 spec. than there are in wading through various newbie questions. I th

Re: SUGGESTION: haskell-announce mailing list

2002-05-11 Thread Jorge Adriano
On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:41, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > I Would also be moderately in favor of merging the haskell and > > haskell-cafe lists back into one, mainly because I always felt the > > distinction was somewhat arbitrary, who knows what discussions will turn > > out to be too long

Re: SUGGESTION: haskell-announce mailing list

2002-05-11 Thread Jose Romildo Malaquias
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:52:30PM -0700, John Meacham wrote: > yeah, I really like this because oftentimes an announcment will incite a > discussion, this way people can reply to the announcement on the haskell > list if they want to discuss it and the people who dont care about > anouncements ca

Re: SUGGESTION: haskell-announce mailing list

2002-05-10 Thread John Meacham
yeah, I really like this because oftentimes an announcment will incite a discussion, this way people can reply to the announcement on the haskell list if they want to discuss it and the people who dont care about anouncements can just stay on the announce list. I Would also be moderately in favor

Re: SUGGESTION: haskell-announce mailing list

2002-05-10 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2002-05-10 10:38, C.Reinke wrote: >existing split, this ought to be split off the haskell list (i.e., >everyone subscribed to haskell would initially be subscribed to >haskell and to haskell-announce). > >Opinions? Suggestions? I suggest that all posts to haskell-announce are copied to haskel

Subject prefixes (was: RE: suggestion)

2001-10-27 Thread Simon Marlow
> > What do you all think about activating the mechanism that > > automatically includes the name of the list before the subject > > of a mailing list email? > > For example: > > "[hugs-users] Installation problems" or "[haskell] newbie > > question". > > I don't like the extra prefixes, but if

Re: suggestion

2001-10-23 Thread Juan Carlos Arévalo Baeza
On 23 Oct 2001 08:11:59 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: >>  I'd personally prefer to get a proper Reply-To: >>  header so replies go to the list by default, not to the original >>  sender. > >This is a lot worse. On the lists I subscribe to that have this kind >of configuration, the lists are riddled w

Re: suggestion

2001-10-23 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:37:15AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > > What do you all think about activating the mechanism that > > automatically includes the name of the list before the subject > > of a mailing list email? > > For example: > > "[hugs-users] Installation problems" or "[haskell] newbi

RE: suggestion

2001-10-23 Thread Simon Marlow
> What do you all think about activating the mechanism that > automatically includes the name of the list before the subject > of a mailing list email? > For example: > "[hugs-users] Installation problems" or "[haskell] newbie > question". I don't like the extra prefixes, but if most folk would

Re: suggestion

2001-10-22 Thread Ketil Malde
Juan Carlos Arévalo Baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:38:23 -0400 (EDT), Mark Carroll wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andre W B Furtado wrote: >>> What do you all think about activating the mechanism that automatically >>> includes the name of the list before the subject

Re: suggestion

2001-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jakacki
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andre W B Furtado wrote: > What do you all think about activating the mechanism that automatically > includes the name of the list before the subject of a mailing list email? > For example: > "[hugs-users] Installation problems" or "[haskell] newbie question". Great. It wo

Re: suggestion

2001-10-22 Thread Juan Carlos Arévalo Baeza
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:38:23 -0400 (EDT), Mark Carroll wrote: >On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andre W B Furtado wrote: > >> What do you all think about activating the mechanism that automatically >> includes the name of the list before the subject of a mailing list email? > >I like the idea. I guess it

Re: suggestion

2001-10-22 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andre W B Furtado wrote: > What do you all think about activating the mechanism that automatically > includes the name of the list before the subject of a mailing list email? I like the idea. > For example: > "[hugs-users] Installation problems" or "[haskell] newbie questio

Re: suggestion for Random.randomR

2000-01-12 Thread Matt Harden
George Russell wrote: > > Matt Harden wrote: > > I don't think that's really true. If I understand it correctly, the > > state can be any type; it doesn't have to fit in, say, an Int or other > > small type. I think the Mersenne Twister could be implemented as an > > instance of Random.RandomGe

Re: suggestion for Random.randomR

2000-01-07 Thread George Russell
Matt Harden wrote: > I don't think that's really true. If I understand it correctly, the > state can be any type; it doesn't have to fit in, say, an Int or other > small type. I think the Mersenne Twister could be implemented as an > instance of Random.RandomGen. The only thing is I don't reall

Re: suggestion for Random.randomR

1999-12-23 Thread Matt Harden
George Russell wrote: > > Personally I have only one gripe with the Random class in Standard Haskell; > this is that it provides too much functionality. > In general I think you can only have two of the following 3: > (1) good random numbers > (2) speed > (3) small state > For example the Mersenn

Re: suggestion for Random.randomR

1999-12-23 Thread George Russell
Personally I have only one gripe with the Random class in Standard Haskell; this is that it provides too much functionality. In general I think you can only have two of the following 3: (1) good random numbers (2) speed (3) small state For example the Mersenne Twister is very very good and fast

RE: suggestion for Random.randomR

1999-12-23 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Sergey The essence of your message is that the H98 Random library defn of randomR doesn't really make sense if the type does not belong to Ord. I don't want to specify that | It is required randomR (lo,hi) g == randomR (hi,lo) g as you suggest. That would be counter-intuitive for n

Re: suggestion to Haskell standard

1995-09-11 Thread reid
Sergei D. Meshveliani proposes: > To replace such standard prelude functions as min,minimum,sort etc. > with their "function-argument" variants. This has been part of the plan for some time. The following has an up-to-date description of the proposal. http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS