Welcome to issue 271 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the
week of June 9 to 11, 2013.
Quotes of the Week
* cmccann: also please note that "malign" remains one of my best
function names ever
* dolio: Pe
> it's the entire Enum class which doesn't have a consistent or sensible
> semantics
Yes, for a language with generally sound mathematical roots, Enum is
an embarrassment. My pet peeve is that Rationals are enumerable, but
not with Enum. And the differing lengths of [1,4..6] and [1.0,4.0..6.0]
Hi Ian,
Yes, seems that was the case. (But I had the feeling it was OK before the
reinstallation.)
How to disable/ignore HLint suggestions if OverloadedStrings are used?
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Annotation problem after HP reinstalation
From: Sturdy, Ia
Looks to me as if you have OverloadedStrings enabled somewhere, in which case
that would be the correct behaviour.
IRS
From: haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org [haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org] on
behalf of Vlatko Basic [vlatko.ba...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wedn
I uninstalled haskell-platform, deleted .cabal and .ghc dirs and reinstalled it
(on Ubuntu), but now the annotation (and other annotations)
{-# ANN module "HLint: ignore Eta reduce" #-}
produces error
Ambiguous type variable `a0' in the constraints:
(Data a0) arising from an annotation a
hello cafe --
i have created the mailing list hott-amate...@googlegroups.com
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/hott-amateurs
(perhaps forever consigning myself to spam folders everywhere.) if you are
interested in joining this reading group, you can do so there. nothing has
been decided yet
