[Haskell-cafe] ANN: sandi 0.1.1 - a data encoding/decoding library

2012-12-29 Thread Magnus Therning
The other day I released version 0.1.1 of sandi, a data encoding/decoding library supporting the following encodings: base16, base32, base32hex, base64, base64url, base85, quoted-printable, uuencode, xxencode, yEnc I believe it's reasonably fast, but I still have to look more closely at

[Haskell-cafe] Retiring as maintainer of dataenc

2012-12-29 Thread Magnus Therning
Hi all, A few years ago I found a need to base64 encode a bit of text inside vim and realised that there was no convenient way of doing it. This resulted in dataenc[1] and a pair of tools built on it, omnicodec[2]. The main goals were to make dataenc correct, support many encodings, and easy to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambda case (was Re: A big hurray for lambda-case (and all the other good stuff))

2012-12-29 Thread Tom Ellis
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:49:53PM +, Jon Fairbairn wrote: Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de writes: just wanted to drop by to say how much I like the new lambda case extension. I use it all the time and I just *love* how it relieves me from conjuring up dummy variables,