[Haskell-cafe] Call for discussion: OverloadedLists extension

2012-09-22 Thread Michael Snoyman
(Prettier formatting available at: https://gist.github.com/3761252) Many of us use the OverloadedStrings language extension on a regular basis. It provides the ability to keep the ease-of-use of string literal syntax, while getting the performance and correctness advantages of specialized datatype

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs on Windows 7

2012-09-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Vasili I. Galchin wrote: > Hello Haskellers, > > I installed darcs on a Windows 7 machine. A darcs folder was created > under "Program Files(x86)" folder. However, when I pull up "Program..." on > the left side, darcs not there for me to run it. Why? Is darcs run only > from the CLI? Yes,

[Haskell-cafe] Darcs on Windows 7

2012-09-22 Thread Vasili I. Galchin
Hello Haskellers, I installed darcs on a Windows 7 machine. A darcs folder was created under "Program Files(x86)" folder. However, when I pull up "Program..." on the left side, darcs not there for me to run it. Why? Is darcs run only from the CLI? Regard, Vasili ___

[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: ANNOUNCE: hsqml-0.1.1 (and hsqml-morris-0.1.0)

2012-09-22 Thread Matthew West
Hello, In case anyone is wondering this does not compile on vanilla Mac OS 10.6 because XCode 3.2 doesn't support C++11. I believe that XCode 4.2 does support it however I've not yet paid Apple the $100 they want before I can download it for 10.6. Macports has more recent versions of GCC howe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Wiki News

2012-09-22 Thread Thomas Schilling
It's a wiki. I went ahead and fixed it, this time. To paraphrase Bryan O'Sullivan: Whenever you think "why hasn't anyone done ...", or "why doesn't somebody fix ...", you should ask yourself "Why don't *I* do ..." or "Why don't *I* fix ...". That's how open source works. (Not trying to be offens

[Haskell-cafe] Munich Haskell Meeting

2012-09-22 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Dear all, Heinrich is on holiday next week, thus I'll manage it this time: Once again, it's time for our monthly get-together. Functional programmers from Munich and other cities will meet on Thu, 27th of September, at 19h30 at Cafe Puck in Munich. If you plan to join, please go to http://www.h

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Question about type inference of a GADT term

2012-09-22 Thread Florian Lorenzen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, of course! Stupid me, thanks for pointing that out Daniel. Now it works as expected. Florian On 09/22/2012 12:55 AM, Daniel Peebles wrote: > Shouldn't you have > > IxZero :: Ix (CtxCons ty ctx) ty > > instead of > > IxZero :: Ix ctx ty > >

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Wiki News

2012-09-22 Thread Colin Adams
This doesn't seem to be up-to-date. It announces GHC 7.4 released (but 7.6.1 was released a couple of weeks ago). ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Church vs Boehm-Berarducci encoding of Lists

2012-09-22 Thread oleg
> do you have any references for the extension of lambda-encoding of > data into dependently typed systems? > Is there a way out of this quagmire? Or are we stuck defining actual > datatypes if we want dependent types? Although not directly answering your question, the following paper Inducti