Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: attempt-0.0.0

2009-10-26 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: Comments are most welcome. I would like this to be a suitable replacement for the ubiquitous Maybe, (Either String) and ad-hoc Result data types so often used to report a failure. I'd be very happy to improve the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com wrote: [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png [2]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo2.png Oops, I meant to post on list. If you play with the angles and vary the stroke thicknesses you'll probably

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Darrin Thompson
My $0.02 us: Apologies for ascii art, and hopefully gmail doesn't munge this: \\ \\ \\ \\ \| \\ \\ --- \\ \\ // / \ // / \ \| // / /\\ ---

[Haskell-cafe] The Gtk Clutter API

2008-11-13 Thread Darrin Thompson
http://www.clutter-project.org/ What is the degree-of-difficulty for creating Haskell bindings for Clutter? Is it simple to extend gtk2hs to cover it? Or has it been done and I just don't see it? Thanks. -- Darrin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hmm, what license to use?

2008-10-02 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And keep dividing our compiler teams' efforts, while single-implementation languages conquer :) Seems like Haskell has a pretty clear story about which is the right implementation for general purpose use. I don't see a

[Haskell-cafe] New Category Theory Intros

2008-08-29 Thread Darrin Thompson
These category theory intros were new to me. Thought others here might care. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/08/new_structures_for_physics_i.html -- Darrin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Another First course in Haskell

2008-08-27 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Johannes Waldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (*) that's the main problem I see with Hutton's book http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.htmlhttp://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/%7Egmh/book.html: it has Declaring types and classes as chapter 10 (of 13 total). I think that's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] BLAS Solve Example

2008-07-23 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ ghci solve.hs *Main sol 3 | [-5.511e-2,0.3,0.2776] I was hoping for rational solutions. If I were a true jedi master I'd write my own solver, which might be the right thing to do.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.2

2008-07-23 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Timo B. Hübel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately we had to drop the direct links to the source code, as the documentation on Hackage is currently generated without source code. But as soon as this changes, we will include these links again. Someone is

[Haskell-cafe] BLAS Solve Example

2008-07-22 Thread Darrin Thompson
I'm stuck on something that I thought would be easy. I have a matrix and a vector. module Main where import Data.Vector.Dense import Data.Matrix.Dense import BLAS.Matrix.Solve m = listMatrix (2, 3) ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]::[Double]) v = listVector 2 ([1, 2]::[Double]) main = do ??? Can I

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Related Reading

2008-06-28 Thread Darrin Thompson
I have a trip coming up and might have some reading time. I was hoping to get through some of the classics, bananas and lenses, the essence, etc. So I have a few questions: Bananas and lenses et. al. uses some notation that I don't understand right out of the gate. Is there a good primer on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Literal programming in Haskell with rst-literals

2008-06-23 Thread Darrin Thompson
2008/6/23 Abhay Parvate [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, You might already know this, but in case you don't: there is another literate style: I had trouble finding the docs on this, as I expected them to be in the ghc user guide. For the record, the relevant docs are in the h98 report:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: Fortress talk in New York City

2008-06-13 Thread Darrin Thompson
2008/6/13 Jeff Polakow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There will be a talk on Fortress ( a new OO/Functional language from Sun) on Wednesday June 25 at 6:30pm in Manhattan. Sounds interesting. Any plans to post video? -- Darrin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install failure

2008-06-13 Thread Darrin Thompson
Cabal-install is looking good. It now, for the record, has only two deps outside of Cabal-1.4. I installed cabal-install-0.5 on ubuntu with the haskell.org linux binary for ghc 6.8.2. I then tried cabal-install yi Got this output: ... many successful installs ... Registering vty-3.0.1...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal and platform-independent haskell installation management (again) (Re: Re: Ubuntu and ghc)

2008-06-05 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 17:22 +0200, Achim Schneider wrote: The question, IMHO, seems to be How would a package manager for a posix-compilant kinetic look like? http://nixos.org/index.html How well does that coexist

Re: cabal and platform-independent haskell installation management (again) (Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Ubuntu and ghc)

2008-06-04 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Claus Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - it isn't sufficient to worry about installation management, one has to worry about integration, lifetime and uninstall management as well. in short, maintain the dependency graphs over any of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] git-darcs-import 0.1

2008-06-03 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Bertram Felgenhauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm pleased to announce yet another tool for importing darcs repositories to git. Unlike darcs2git [1] and darcs-to-git [2], it's written in Haskell, on top of the darcs2 source code. The result is a much faster

[Haskell-cafe] Rewrite class with fundeps in pure h98?

2008-06-03 Thread Darrin Thompson
I thought that I should be able to write something like the toHtml function below with pure H98, but when I went to write it I ended up needing fundeps. Is there a way to express this without using any extensions? The idea was to take a remotely Dom-like tree and flatten it into a string, but not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Damnit, we need a CPAN.

2008-05-29 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: , a cabal-inst that can install from darcs (or at least from a local directory) Yes, that would be lovely! While we're on the subject, why does searchpath get as little attention as it does? It seems to work reasonably

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Damnit, we need a CPAN.

2008-05-29 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been playing a lot with searchpath lately, for doing happs quickstart installation as described on happs.org. Searchpath works great when it works, which usually means -- when the module map file is up to date and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] So how do people pronounce 'cabal' around here?

2008-05-28 Thread Darrin Thompson
2008/5/28 Clifford Beshers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But if you say it that way, you get kicked out of the cabal. I thought the first rule was There is no cabal. Oh wait, that's Debian. Oh wait... aa! -- Darrin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Aren't type system extensions fun? [Further analysis]

2008-05-27 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Kim-Ee Yeoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's fill in the type variable: (x - x) - (Char, Bool) == forall x. (x - x) - (Char, Bool) == x_t - (x - x) - (Char, Bool), where x_t is the hidden type-variable, not unlike the reader monad. As you've pointed out, callER

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC predictability

2008-05-13 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note the use of strict pairs. Key to ensuring the accumulators end up in registers.The performance difference here is due to fold (and all left folds) not fusing in normal build/foldr fusion. The vector version

Re: [Haskell-cafe] I am new to haskell

2008-05-08 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Benjamin L. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck: The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming, As someone approaching haskell with very rusty math skills, this book has been invaluable. My haskell skills are (mostly) beyond what

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Interesting critique of OCaml

2008-05-08 Thread Darrin Thompson
2008/5/8 Donnie Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would be interested to see an article on Haskell in the same light as this Ocaml article, aka a constructive criticism of Haskell. http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/02/tell-us-why-your-language-sucks/ -- Darrin