Re: [Haskell-cafe] US Patent for the idea of using Haskell to implement UAX #9

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Brian Hulley writes: > The main problem for me is just the fact that the legal system in > itself is, as Charles Dickens wrote in "The Old Curiosity Shop" > (Chapter 37): > > ... an edged tool of uncertain > application, very expensive in the working, > and rather remarkable for its pr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: US Patent for the idea ...

2010-04-17 Thread Murray Gross
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Brian Hulley wrote: see the patent 6,368,227. The search site is here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm Best regards. Jerzy Karczmarczuk ... It's really almost not fair to cite that particular patent, since, if I recall the story correctly (I may be wrong

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Weird behaviour with positional parameters in HDBC-mysql

2010-04-17 Thread Martijn van Steenbergen
Thanks! That's great news. Yes, all seems fine now. :-) It was a very interesting bug to isolate. At one point I was in the situation where compiling with -O2 fixed the problem and -O0 didn't, seemingly consistently. By the way, I got two warnings while compiling: * Warning: Fields of `Types.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Jesper Louis Andersen
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Jason Dagit wrote: > > Myself and others posted "simpler" programs that had similar bad behavior, > including the space leak (depending on optimizations flags).  I realize it's > tedious to retest all those versions, but do you think you could check with > one of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strange error with type classes + associated types

2010-04-17 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 17/04/2010, at 11:00, Conal Elliott wrote: > I'm unsure now, but I think I tried making Basis a data type (not syn) and > ran into the problem I mentioned above. The Basis *synonyms* also have > HasTrie instances, which is crucially important. If we switch to (injective) > data types, then

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Jason, Saturday, April 17, 2010, 2:00:04 AM, you wrote: > Well, I think Bulat correctly characterized the non-termination > aspect.  I didn't think the cooperative aspect of threading applied > with the threaded RTS, so I'm not 100% sure I believe his > characterization, but otherwise it s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ocaml for Haskellers tutorial

2010-04-17 Thread Bas van Dijk
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Jason Dagit wrote: > ... > One place where lazy accumulators is bad are the left folds.  There is the > lazy foldl and the version which is strict in the accumulator, foldl'.  Try > summing big lists of integers, let's use ghci and limit the heap to 1 meg: > ghci

RE: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
I have not been following the details of this, I'm afraid, but I notice this: > forever' m = do _ <- m > forever' m When I define that version of forever, the space leak goes away. What was the old version of forever that led to the leak? If you can boil down the leak to a simpl

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Monads Terminology Question

2010-04-17 Thread Bas van Dijk
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Mark Snyder wrote: > So in this line of thought, where we have the operations and the control > operators, I guess my original question wasn't aware of the distinction, and > was looking for a name for all of them combined.  In Haskell (specifically > in the mtl),

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Adam Vogt
* On Wednesday, April 14 2010, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote: >> newtype Process a b c = Process (ReaderT a (StateT b IO) c) >> deriving (Functor, Monad, MonadIO, MonadState b, MonadReader a) > >Note that the automatic derivations of *MonadState b* and *MonadReader a* makes >GHC spit our some mkUs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Samstag 17 April 2010 14:41:28 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: > I have not been following the details of this, I'm afraid, but I notice this: > > forever' m = do _ <- m > > forever' m > > When I define that version of forever, the space leak goes away. > > What was the old version

[Haskell-cafe] Patch to add process group support

2010-04-17 Thread Hamish Mackenzie
The attached patch for the process package adds support for creating and interrupting process groups on Unix and Win32 systems. Currently we have to use a nasty hack in Leksah that only works on Unix systems (and even then not very well). On Win32 Leksah's background build feature is dreadful

[Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Limestraël
Hello, I'm trying to make two simple classe which would help me to transform unserializable datatypes to serializable ones. The classes are: class (Binary b) => Binarizable a b | a -> b where toBinary :: a -> b class (Binarizable a b, Monad m) => Unbinarizable a b m | a -> b where fromBinary

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal: other-modules

2010-04-17 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 15, 2010, at 08:49 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: Why are people suddenly using the term "morally" when they mean "why doesn't this do what I think it should"? None of its definitions seem to match what you mean: That depends on how cynical you are about religion. :) -- brandon s. al

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strange error with type classes + associated types

2010-04-17 Thread Conal Elliott
Oh! I'd completely forgotten about this idea. Looking at Data.LinearMap in vector-space, I see a comment about exactly this ambiguity, as well as the start of a new module that wraps a data type around the linear map representation. I don't recall whether I got stuck or just distracted. On Sat,

[Haskell-cafe] GHC Api typechecking

2010-04-17 Thread Phyx
Hi all, I was wondering if someone knows how to do the following: I’m looking to typecheck a string using the GHC Api, where I run into problems is that I need to construct a Target, but the TargetId only seem to reference physical files. Ofcourse I can write the string to a file and typech

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Samstag 17 April 2010 19:14:02 schrieb Limestraël: > Hello, > > Well, here comes the trouble: > GameStructs.hs:16:9: > Functional dependencies conflict between instance declarations: > instance (Binary a) => Binarizable a a > -- Defined at MagBots/GameStructs.hs:16:9-37 >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: HaskellTorrent/Combinatorrent v0.2.0

2010-04-17 Thread Stephan Maka
Jesper Louis Andersen wrote: > * Change all use of CML to STM: > Overall, it looks like this change improved the code. There are still some > need for cleanup after the bomb was thrown, but it does look like it will > turn out positively. If CML put you off the track for hacking on >

[Haskell-cafe] Embedded funcional programming?

2010-04-17 Thread Maurí­cio CA
Hi, all, I've beeing working with some people who do programming for wireless devices. 100% of their code uses C, and I would like to show them nice things they could do with funcional programming (not necessarily Haskell. I believe, say, Standard ML could be also very nice.) I'm new to this, so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Limestraël
Yes! Sorry, I forgot a bit: Binary types are automatically made instances of Binarizable/Unbinarizable (that's my line 16): instance (Binary a) => Binarizable a a where toBinary = id instance (Binary a, Monad m) => Unbinarizable a a m where fromBinary = return To me, the functional dependen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Bertram Felgenhauer
Daniel Fischer wrote: > Am Samstag 17 April 2010 14:41:28 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: > > I have not been following the details of this, I'm afraid, but I notice > this: > > > forever' m = do _ <- m > > > forever' m > > > > When I define that version of forever, the space leak goes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] US Patent for the idea of using Haskell to implement UAX #9

2010-04-17 Thread Brian Hulley
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: Brian Hulley writes: The main problem for me is just the fact that the legal system in itself is, as Charles Dickens wrote in "The Old Curiosity Shop" (Chapter 37): ... an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather re

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Bertram, Sunday, April 18, 2010, 12:11:05 AM, you wrote: > always a = -- let act = a >> act in act > do > _ <- a > always a > > hinting at the real problem: 'always' actually creates a long chain of > actions instead of tying the knot. can you explain it d

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Samstag 17 April 2010 22:01:23 schrieb Limestraël: > Yes! Sorry, I forgot a bit: > Binary types are automatically made instances of > Binarizable/Unbinarizable (that's my line 16): > > instance (Binary a) => Binarizable a a where > toBinary = id > > instance (Binary a, Monad m) => Unbinarizabl

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Casey McCann
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Limestraël wrote: > I would have undestood the error if GameObject was also an instance of > Binary (then the two instances would match), but it's not the case... As Daniel Fischer has mentioned, presumably a Binary instance could later be written for GameObject;

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Embedded funcional programming?

2010-04-17 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hello Maurício > I'm new to this, so the only problems I see are finding a compiler > that targets the platform (ARM7, for instance, or others) and > uploading the compiled firmware to the device. You might find that the extra RAM requirements for a non-C language becomes a problem - especially

RE: [Haskell-cafe] ghc package problem

2010-04-17 Thread Phyx
Hi all, I was finally able to solve this by deleting the user package.conf.d completely. I think there was some problem with the package.cache file, It must have gotten corrupted somehow. Cheers, Phyx -Original Message- From: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [mailto:ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com] Se

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: US Patent for the idea ...

2010-04-17 Thread roconnor
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, jerzy.karczmarc...@info.unicaen.fr wrote: Somebody finally decided to ridiculise the system. If you want a good laugh, see the patent 6,368,227. The search site is here: As I recall some (patent?) laywer was simply teaching his kid how the patent process worked, so the wo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Limestraël
Ok, so I am heading to a headache... Daniel Fischer mentioned a solution using Type Families. As I read, those are meant to replace the FunDeps, I will try this solution... 2010/4/17 Casey McCann > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Limestraël wrote: > > I would have undestood the error if GameO

[Haskell-cafe] problem with cabal on snow leopard

2010-04-17 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hello all, I can't seem to find it documented anywhere as to the default directories that cabal puts its information in (its certainly not in ~/.cabal ), as I'm finding that even when I try to do a "reinstall" of the haskell platform, cabal thinks that all the libraries i removed are still there.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: HaskellTorrent/Combinatorrent v0.2.0

2010-04-17 Thread Jesper Louis Andersen
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Stephan Maka wrote: > >> * Introduce RTS benchmarks: >>     See http://jlouis.github.com/combinatorrent where we plot SVG-based >>     sparklines for various key RTS parameters over time (works best in Opera >> or >>     Chrome). A slow-changing regression has a m

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does the transformers/mtl 'Error' class exist?

2010-04-17 Thread Henning Thielemann
Ryan Ingram schrieb: It's used in the implementation of "fail" for those monads. class Monad m where ... fail :: String -> m a fail = error -- default implementation which is then used to desugar do-notation when pattern matching fails: do Left x <- something retu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem with cabal on snow leopard

2010-04-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote: > Hello all, > I can't seem to find it documented anywhere as to the default directories > that cabal puts its information in  (its certainly not in ~/.cabal ),  as > I'm finding that even when I try to do a "reinstall" of the haskell > plat

[Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Chris Dornan
Hi Everyone, I am trying to get cabal-install to work on a system in which /tmp is mounted noexec. Is there any way to configure it to use another directory? I would be happy to patch the source and rebuild if need be. Thanks in advance, Chris ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ocaml for Haskellers tutorial

2010-04-17 Thread Henning Thielemann
Bas van Dijk schrieb: I don't know why the heap and stack overflow problems go away. So lets look at the core output of the latter program: $ ghc-core -- -O2 FoldlProfile.hs $wsum :: [Int] -> Int# $wsum = \ (w_s1rS :: [Int]) -> $wfoldl_f 0 w_s1rS $wfoldl_f :: Int# -> [Int] -> Int# $wfoldl_f =

Re: [Haskell-cafe] vector recycling

2010-04-17 Thread Ben
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: > That said, it would be quite possible to provide something like the following: > > fold_inplace :: Vector v a => (v a -> b -> v a) -> v a -> [b] -> v a as far as i understand there would be two ways of writing such a function : 1) to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag 18 April 2010 00:02:52 schrieb Chris Dornan: > Hi Everyone, > > > > I am trying to get cabal-install to work on a system in which /tmp is > mounted noexec. Is there any way to configure it to use another > directory? > cabal-install gets its temporary directory via System.Directory.get

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: US Patent for the idea ...

2010-04-17 Thread Brian Hulley
Murray Gross wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Brian Hulley wrote: see the patent 6,368,227. The search site is here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm Best regards. Jerzy Karczmarczuk ... It's really almost not fair to cite that particular patent, since, if I recall the story correct

[Haskell-cafe] Re: instance Eq (a -> b)

2010-04-17 Thread Ashley Yakeley
rocon...@theorem.ca wrote: As ski noted on #haskell we probably want to extend this to work on Compact types and not just Finite types instance (Compact a, Eq b) => Eq (a -> b) where ... For example (Int -> Bool) is a perfectly fine Compact set that isn't finite and (Int -> Bool) -> Int has a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: instance Eq (a -> b)

2010-04-17 Thread Ashley Yakeley
Ketil Malde wrote: Do we also want to modify equality for lazy bytestrings, where equality is currently independent of chunk segmentation? (I.e. toChunks s1 == toChunks s2 ==> s1 == s2 but not vice versa.) Why is toChunks exposed? -- Ashley Yakeley _

[Haskell-cafe] Re: instance Eq (a -> b)

2010-04-17 Thread Ashley Yakeley
I wrote: class Compact a where After reading Luke Palmer's message I'm thinking this might not be the best name. -- Ashley Yakeley ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Daniel Fischer writes: > cabal-install gets its temporary directory via > System.Directory.getTemporaryDirectory, so you can specify some other > directory via the TMPDIR environment variable (TMP on windows). Except I think Chris wants to be able to specify a directory, since other application

Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem with cabal on snow leopard

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Carter Schonwald writes: > I can't seem to find it documented anywhere as to the default directories > that cabal puts its information in (its certainly not in ~/.cabal ), as > I'm finding that even when I try to do a "reinstall" of the haskell > platform, cabal thinks that all the libraries i r

Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Erlend Hamberg
On Sunday 18. April 2010 00.49.28 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > Except I think Chris wants to be able to specify a directory, since > other applications would probably want to keep using /tmp for TMPDIR. alias cabal="TMPDIR=/foo cabal" -- Erlend Hamberg “Everything will be ok in the end. If it'

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Samstag 17 April 2010 22:11:05 schrieb Bertram Felgenhauer: > Daniel Fischer wrote: > > Am Samstag 17 April 2010 14:41:28 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: > > > I have not been following the details of this, I'm afraid, but I > > > notice > > > > this: > > > > forever' m = do _ <- m > > > >

RE: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Chris Dornan
Thanks Daniel and Erlend, I now have cabal-install working. Chris -Original Message- From: daniel.is.fisc...@web.de [mailto:daniel.is.fisc...@web.de] Sent: 17 April 2010 5:4 PM To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Cc: Chris Dornan Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Ben Millwood
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote: > > {-# LANGUAGE OverlappingInstances, [...] > but with caution: using OverlappingInstances is the haskell equivalent of buying a new car with high safety rating and replacing the air bags with poison gas, pouring lubricating oil all over t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Erlend Hamberg writes: > On Sunday 18. April 2010 00.49.28 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >> Except I think Chris wants to be able to specify a directory, since >> other applications would probably want to keep using /tmp for TMPDIR. > > alias cabal="TMPDIR=/foo cabal" Ooohhh, forgot you can do th

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Bertram Felgenhauer
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Bertram, > > Sunday, April 18, 2010, 12:11:05 AM, you wrote: > > > always a = -- let act = a >> act in act > > do > > _ <- a > > always a > > > > > hinting at the real problem: 'always' actually creates a long chain of > > actions i

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Agata-0.2.0

2010-04-17 Thread Jonas Almström Duregård
I'm pleased to announce Agata (Agata Generates Algebraic Types Automatically)! Avoiding excessive details, usage is best described by a small example: {-#LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} import Test.QuickCheck import Test.AgataTH data X a b = X [Either a b] deriving Show data Y = Y deriving Show dat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag 18 April 2010 01:23:07 schrieb Ben Millwood: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Daniel Fischer > > wrote: > > {-# LANGUAGE OverlappingInstances, [...] > > but with caution: > > using OverlappingInstances is the haskell equivalent of > buying a new car with high safety rating and replac

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Confusions about the Haskell Platform (for Mac)

2010-04-17 Thread Don Stewart
leather: > > 2. What is the difference between "Haskell" and the "Haskell Platform"? I see > one or the other in various places. To get from www.haskell.org to downloading > the Mac software, I go through "Download Haskell," "Get the Haskell Platform > > Mac," and "Download Haskell for Mac OS X (i

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Vector to Monadic Stream and back, how?

2010-04-17 Thread Don Stewart
rl: > On 14/04/2010, at 09:05, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > > > I want to use 'mapM' on Data.Vector.Vector, but it looks > > like the only 'mapM' defined is in > > Data.Vector.Fusion.Stream.Monadic. I'm able to use 'stream' > > and 'liftStream' to convert a 'Vector' to a monadic stream, > > on which I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Bertram Felgenhauer
Daniel Fischer wrote: > Except that with optimisations turned on, GHC ties the knot for you (at > least if always isn't exported). > Without -fno-state-hack, the knot is tied so tightly that > always (return ()) is never descheduled (and there's no leak). Yes, I was concentrating on -O2, without

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC, odd concurrency space leak

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag 18 April 2010 02:05:30 schrieb Bertram Felgenhauer: > Which is > >     always = \a_aeO -> let k_sYz = always a_aeO >                        in  a_aeO >> k_sYz > > specialised to IO, and with (>>) inlined. > > Where is the knot? Nowhere. Got confused by all the a_aAe and `cast` (GHC.Typ

[Haskell-cafe] building Haskell Platform for CentOS 5.2 with a /tmp mounted noexec

2010-04-17 Thread Chris Dornan
Hi Everyone, Just to report that I now have Haskell Platform built for CentOS 5.2 with a /tmp mounted noexec. Looking back, the first main hurdle was getting GHC built for CentOS 5.2 (which uses Linux 2.6.9/glibc 2.5), but the procedure was pretty straight forward: . Keep tryin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] building Haskell Platform for CentOS 5.2 with a /tmp mounted noexec

2010-04-17 Thread Don Stewart
chris: > > With that in place, AFAIK, the Haskell Platform built from source with the > various configure scripts giving me enough hints to ‘yum install’ all the > required CentOS packages. > Great work! Is there a website documenting this effort? Or better yet: a binary package I can add to th

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Ben Millwood
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Fischer wrote: > Am Sonntag 18 April 2010 01:23:07 schrieb Ben Millwood: >> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Daniel Fischer >> >> wrote: >> > {-# LANGUAGE OverlappingInstances, [...] >> >> but with caution: >> >> using OverlappingInstances is the haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem with cabal on snow leopard

2010-04-17 Thread Carter Schonwald
the deleting .ghc/ solves that problem, but another problem i've had is that when trying to build gtk2hs, I'm unable to find the package.conf file that apparently needs to be modfied, and only a package.conf.d folder are these somehow the same thing or where is it hidden/what am i overlooking

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Embedded funcional programming?

2010-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Scofield
Maurí­cio CA writes: > I've beeing working with some people who do programming for > wireless devices. 100% of their code uses C, and I would like to > show them nice things they could do with funcional programming > (not necessarily Haskell. I believe, say, Standard ML could be > also very nice.

[Haskell-cafe] iPhone/Android and Haskell [Was: Embedded funcional programming?]

2010-04-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 08:21:06PM -0700, Jeffrey Scofield wrote: > As a side comment, I haven't noticed any reaction in the > Haskell/iPhone community about Apple's recent policy change. I've seen some reaction in other language communities, and I'm sure you can imagine what it's like. Understand

Re: [Haskell-cafe] iPhone/Android and Haskell [Was: Embedded funcional programming?]

2010-04-17 Thread James Britt
Darrin Chandler wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 08:21:06PM -0700, Jeffrey Scofield wrote: As a side comment, I haven't noticed any reaction in the Haskell/iPhone community about Apple's recent policy change. I've seen some reaction in other language communities, and I'm sure you can imagine wha

Re: [Haskell-cafe] building Haskell Platform for CentOS 5.2 with a /tmp mounted noexec

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
"Chris Dornan" writes: > . Keep trying generic binary Linux ghc packages until one that works > is found (in this case ghc-6.8.3); > > . With ghc-6.8.3 installed, download the src tar ball for the next > ghc release (6.10.1) and build and install that; > I wonder, could you have g

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional Dependencies conflicts

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Daniel Fischer writes: > Wow. Makes me wonder what quicksilver says about IncoherentInstances. Not quicksilver, but according to lambdabot: @quote incoherent sproingie says: * enables IncoherentInstances and ends up with Sarah Palin in his living room -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic iva

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Embedded funcional programming?

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Jeffrey Scofield writes: > As a side comment, I haven't noticed any reaction in the > Haskell/iPhone community about Apple's recent policy change. >From the Haskell reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/bouxy/more_on_the_iphone_applications_must_be/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem with cabal on snow leopard

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Carter Schonwald writes: > the deleting .ghc/ solves that problem, but another problem i've had is that > when trying to build gtk2hs, I'm unable to find the package.conf file that > apparently needs to be modfied, and only a package.conf.d folder are > these somehow the same thing or where

RE: [Haskell-cafe] building Haskell Platform for CentOS 5.2 with a /tmp mounted noexec

2010-04-17 Thread Chris Dornan
I don't know whether I could have gotten away with it but was happy to go through all the intermediate stages: it seemed the safer bet. The building of a complete GHC bundle from source is such a major undertaking that I really didn't want to build it with an old compiler and lose all of the testi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Agata-0.2.0

2010-04-17 Thread Duane Johnson
Wow, very cool! This is so helpful I'm surprised it isn't part of QuickCheck. Why isn't it? Regards, Duane Johnson On Apr 17, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Jonas Almström Duregård wrote: {-#LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} import Test.QuickCheck import Test.AgataTH data X a b = X [Either a b] deriving Sh

Re: [Haskell-cafe] iPhone/Android and Haskell [Was: Embedded funcional programming?]

2010-04-17 Thread Liam O'Connor
Our best bet is to compile to ARM native code and then use the NDK to talk to the Java APIs. Cheers. ~Liam ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe