On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Mark Lentczner wrote:
> The Haddock team has spent the last few months revamping the look of the
> generated output. We're pretty close to done, but we'd like to get the
> community's input before we put it in the main release.
>
> Please take a look, and then giv
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Edgar Z. Alvarenga wrote:
> On Sun, 02/May/2010 at 13:10 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
>
>> * Avoid partial functions
>
> Why?
>
> Edgar
Ever place you use a partial function, you need to verify that its
usage is in fact safe. Otherwise, you risk pattern match fai
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Don Stewart wrote:
> I don't believe anyone has written a "Programming Haskell in the Large"
> book (or any other similar functional language??), but there is lots of
> experience in this community working on big, long lived code bases.
>
> Some key points:
[...]
>
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jacques Carette wrote:
> I have heard generic programming described tongue-in-cheek as "the kind of
> polymorphism that a language does not (yet) have". I find this description
> rather apt, and it matches fairly what I see called 'generic' in various
> communitie
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
wrote:
> Whilst freezing it is an option, I feel that this will lead to the same
> problems that we already face with mtl: most people agree/know that the
> approach/design is bad, but we keep using it because there's no (one)
> viable alterna
