Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haddock GSOC project progress

2013-08-05 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Why not use uu-parsinglib, which will tell you what is wrong and nevertheless will continue parsing? Currently Jacco Krijnen is working on an extensible version of Pandoc, based on the AspectAG and the Murder packages, so you can define your own plugins for syntax and semantics. Doaitse

Re: [Haskell-cafe] simple parsec question

2013-03-05 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Maybe this is something you do not even want to use a parser combinator library for. The package http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/list-grouping/0.1.1/doc/html/Data-List-Grouping.html contains a function breakBefore, so you can write main = do inp <- readFile ... let

[Haskell-cafe] question about: --hyperlink-source

2013-02-21 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
I ran into the problem that for the packages which I install using cabal install The generated html does not contain links to the sources. This issue was raised before in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1587635/haddock-for-cabal-installed-modules I have been looking into the documentation

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parser left recursion

2013-02-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
en described in: @article{DBLP :journals/entcs/BaarsSV10, author= {Arthur I. Baars and S. Doaitse Swierstra and Marcos Viera}, title = {Typed Transformations of Typed Grammars: The Left Corner Transform}, journal = {Electr. Notes Theor. Comput

[Haskell-cafe] Sol vingt simple problem in various languages and systems

2013-02-07 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
At https://gist.github.com/ckirkendall/2934374 you find solutions in many languages to a simple programming problem: the evaluation of an expression in an environment. I want to point your attention to the currently last three entries: - one using the UUAGC compiler to solve the problem in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monadic parser vs. combinator parser

2013-02-02 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:47 , Jan Stolarek wrote: > Thanks for replies guys. I indeed didn't notice that there are monads and > applicatives used in > this parser. My thought that monadic parsers are more verbose came from > Hutton's paper where the > code is definitely less readable than in e

Re: [Haskell-cafe] list comprehansion performance has hug different

2013-01-30 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
From the conclusion that both programs compute the same result it can be concluded that the fact that you have made use of a list comprehension has forced you to make a choice which should not matter, i.e. the order in which to place the generators. This should be apparent from your code. My

Re: [Haskell-cafe] catamorphisms and attribute grammars

2013-01-27 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
use the UUAGC nowadays to generate this code form uuagc input. http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/Center/PhDs Doaitse Swierstra On Jan 26, 2013, at 23:03 , Petr P wrote: > Dear Haskellers, > > I read some stuff about attribute grammars recently [1] and how UUAGC [2] can > be used

[Haskell-cafe] Summer school on Applied Functional Programming at Utrecht University; deadline for registration May 15

2013-01-20 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
tion based on questions asked http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/USCS/ -- on this page you can find the poster you can print and hang somewhere (why not your office door): Furthermore we ask for your cooperation to bring this announcement under the attention of potential participants. Best, Doaitse

Re: [Haskell-cafe] phantom types

2012-08-21 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:29 , wren ng thornton wrote: > On 8/17/12 5:35 AM, TP wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am currently reading documentation on Generalized Algebraic Data Types: >> >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/GADT >> >> I have a question concerning this page. Let us consider the following

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Compositional Compiler Construction, Oberon0 examples available

2012-08-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On Aug 21, 2012, at 13:46 , Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > Doaitse Swierstra wrote: >> Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: >>> I have a small question: Last I remember, you've mainly been using >>> your UUAGC preprocessor to write attribute grammars in Haskell, >>> es

[Haskell-cafe] Compositional Compiler Construction, Oberon0 examples available

2012-08-20 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
On Aug 19, 2012, at 10:40 , Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > Doaitse Swierstra wrote: >> Over the years we have been constructing a collection of Embedded >> Domain Specific Languages for describing compilers which are >> assembled from fragments which can be compiled individuall

[Haskell-cafe] Compositional Compiler Construction, Oberon0 examples available

2012-08-19 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
On Aug 19, 2012, at 10:40 , Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > Doaitse Swierstra wrote: >> Over the years we have been constructing a collection of Embedded >> Domain Specific Languages for describing compilers which are >> assembled from fragments which can be compiled individuall

[Haskell-cafe] [Announce] Compositional Compiler Construction, Oberon0 examples available

2012-08-16 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
s Sem modules to see how we use our first class attribute grammars to implement the static semantics associated with the various tasks of the challenge. We hope you like it, and comments are welcome, Marcos Viera Doaitse Swierstra ___ Haske

[Haskell-cafe] Summer school on Applied Functional Programming at Utrecht University; deadline for registration May 15

2011-04-18 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
ter: http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=H9 Furthermore we ask for your cooperation to bring this announcement under the attention of potential participants. Best, Doaitse Swierstra PS: apologies if you get this mail more than once __

Re: [Haskell-cafe] DSL for task dependencies

2011-04-07 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Eelco Dolstra has written a thesis about something like that. Unfortunataly not in Haskell. See http://nixos.org/ Doaitse On 17 mrt 2011, at 21:00, Serge Le Huitouze wrote: > Hi Haskellers! > > I think I remember reading a blog post or web page describing a > EDSL to describe tasks and their

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Wanted: composoable parsers from haskell-src-exts

2011-03-18 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Although this may need a bit of work you might take the parsing code form the Utrecht Haskell Compiler (http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/UHC/Download), which uses the uulib parser combinators. They are top-down parsers, and thus can be used to parse any prefix given a specific parser, i.e. give

[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] new version of uu-parsinglib

2011-03-12 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Version 2.7.0 was uploaded to hackage. >From the CHANGELOG: Version 2.7.0 Improvement: change of error correction at end of amb (which deals with ambiguous parsers) combinator; available lookahead is better taken into account Relatively large change: • Change to Data.ListLike inputs, s

[Haskell-cafe] GHC timings

2011-01-20 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I have small program UULib which i use for checking some timing information. When I compile with ghc 7 and profiling information I get the timings which are more or less what I expect. If I however recompile without profiling tome consumed goes up by a factor of 20! 1) Am I misinterpreting the

[Haskell-cafe] GHC timings

2011-01-20 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I have small program UULib which i use for checking some timing information. When I compile with ghc 7 and profiling information I get the timings which are more or less what I expect. If I however recompile without profiling tome consumed goes up by a factor of 20! 1) Am I misinterpreting the

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: new version of uu-parsinglib:2.5.6

2010-12-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
An old problem popped up in the uu-parsinglib. When combining two parsers with <|>, it is checked to see which alternative accepts the shortest input; this is done in order to prevent infinite insertions, which may occur as a result of choosing a recursive alternative when inserting of some r

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help to create a function to calculate a n element moving average ??

2010-09-29 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 29 sep 2010, at 00:58, o...@cs.otago.ac.nz wrote: >> Avoiding repeated additions: >> >> movingAverage :: Int -> [Float] -> [Float] >> movingAverage n l = runSums (sum . take n $l) l (drop n l) >> where n' = fromIntegral n >> runSums sum (h:hs) (t:ts) = sum / n' : runSums (su

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help to create a function to calculate a n element moving average ??

2010-09-28 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Avoiding repeated additions: movingAverage :: Int -> [Float] -> [Float] movingAverage n l = runSums (sum . take n $l) l (drop n l) where n' = fromIntegral n runSums sum (h:hs) (t:ts) = sum / n' : runSums (sum-h+t) hs ts runSums _ _ [] = [] Doaitse On 28

Re: [Haskell-cafe] types for parsing a tree

2010-09-17 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 16 sep 2010, at 05:42, Jared Jennings wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:00 PM, S. Doaitse Swierstra > wrote: >> I show how this can be done using uu-parsinglib. Note that we have sevral >> parsers, each having its own type: > > Thanks for such a complete example,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] types for parsing a tree

2010-09-10 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I show how this can be done using uu-parsinglib. Note that we have sevral parsers, each having its own type: module Transactions where import Text.ParserCombinators.UU import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Examples import Data.Char pTagged tag (pAttr, pPayload) = pToken ("<" ++ tag ++ ">") *> pAttr

[Haskell-cafe] problems using macports?

2010-09-09 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I am in my yearly fightto get a working combination of operating system (Snow Leopard), compiler version (6.12) , wxWidgets and wxHaskell on my Mac . After deleting most of my stuff, starting afresh, hours of building using macports etc. I finally get the message: loeki:Opgave doaitse$ ghc --ma

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: uu-parsinglib version 2.5.3; extended with merging combinators

2010-08-05 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I have uploaded a new version of the uu-parsinglib. It contains, besides the extension of the abstract interpretation part and the fixing of some very subtle corner cases in that part, some nice new functionality: The call of the parser: -- run ((,,,) `pMerge` (pSome pa <||> pMany pb <||> pOne

Re: [Haskell-cafe] design question: decision tree from "Programming Collective Intelligence"

2010-08-04 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I have added the permutation parsers from uulib to uu-parsinglib: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/uu-parsinglib/2.5.1.1/doc/html/Text-ParserCombinators-UU-Perms.html, where you find reference to the paper Doaitse On 22 jun 2010, at 09:24, Stephen Tetley wrote: > Hello > > Maybe "

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Fun with uu-parsinglib

2010-07-29 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 29 jul 2010, at 05:04, David Place wrote: > Hi, Doaitse. > > I am making good progress transcribing my parser to use your library. I > think some ways that I have grown accustomed to working with Parsec will not > work, though. Now, I am getting the run time error: > >> Result: *** Ex

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: weighted-regexp-0.1.0.0

2010-07-28 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
e further references. Doaitse > > 2010/7/28 S. Doaitse Swierstra : >> >> On 27 jul 2010, at 09:30, Eugene Kirpichov wrote: >> >>> Perhaps this might mean that we can get incremental and parallel >>> regexp matching by associating each character with a linea

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: weighted-regexp-0.1.0.0

2010-07-28 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 27 jul 2010, at 09:30, Eugene Kirpichov wrote: > Perhaps this might mean that we can get incremental and parallel > regexp matching by associating each character with a linear operator This is exactly what is happening in the uu-parsinglib. Doaitse > (matrix) over this or related semirin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Typeclasses question in "Real World Haskell" book

2010-07-26 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
How about: *Main> fromJValue (JBool True) :: Either JSONError Bool Right True *Main> Doaitse On 26 jul 2010, at 15:16, Angel de Vicente wrote: > data JValue = JString String >| JNumber Double >| JBool Bool >| JNull >| JObject [(String, JValue)]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Techniques for ensuring parser correctness?

2010-07-26 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I took a quick look at this file. To me it seems a mixture of a lexer and a parser built on top of a home brewn parser library. I see function like maybeWork which (if I interpret correctly) test whether specific conditions hold for the input, etc. Indeed it would be nice to have a grammatical

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Techniques for ensuring parser correctness?

2010-07-26 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
p://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13321-3_6}, crossref = {DBLP:conf/mpc/2010}, bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} Doaitse Swierstra > > Techniques I'm aware of: > * Round trip checks: Generate a datastructure, render as a string, parse > back, and compare. Quickchec

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Regular Expression to Determinate Finite Automata translator

2010-07-22 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
The simplest way to make a recogniser out of a RE is to use one of the available parsing libraries: module RE where import Text.ParserCombinators.UU import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Examples data RE = Epsilon | Leaf Char | Selection RE RE | Sequence RE RE | Kleene RE | Optional RE | End re_to

[Haskell-cafe] [Ann] New version of parser combinator library uu-parsinglib-2.4.0

2010-07-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
27; ' by itself. I hope you like the extensions, and would be happy to hear from you, both if you use them successfully, or if you have any reason for not using them. Doaitse Swierstra ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org ht

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haddock question

2010-07-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
e On 21 jul 2010, at 16:17, Daniel Fischer wrote: > On Wednesday 21 July 2010 16:09:37, S. Doaitse Swierstra wrote: >> I am trying to document my parser library. In order to do so I should >> like to include some example output in my haddock documentation. I fail >> to s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiger compiler in Haskell: annotating abstract syntax tree

2010-07-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Despite the interesting discussing which has followed this question I think that in orde to approach this specific problem the use of a specific compiler-writers toolset such as the uuagc (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/uuagc-0.9.29)) system is to be preferred; it provides aneffiicent and m

[Haskell-cafe] Haddock question

2010-07-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I am trying to document my parser library. In order to do so I should like to include some example output in my haddock documentation. I fail to see however how to get a block of output into the haddock part. E.g. -- | We can now run the parser @`pa`@ on input \"a\", which succeeds: -- @ Resul

[Haskell-cafe] Haddock question

2010-07-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I am trying to document my parser library. In order to do so I should like to include some example output in my haddock documentation. I fail to see however how to get a block of output into the haddock part. E.g. -- | We can now run the parser @`pa`@ on input \"a\", which succeeds: -- @ Resul

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec combinator like Prolog's cut operator?

2010-07-03 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
If you use the uu-parsing libraries you will get a breadth-first search, instead of a non-backtrcaking depth-first search of Parsec; furthermore you do not suffer from space leaks and get your results online. In addition you get error correction, with high-quality error messages. The principles

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parselib sample

2010-06-02 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
If you want to use the easier long-standing libraries from Utrecht, we can provide you with a parser for full Haskell, which you can find in the Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) distribution.In 2002 Alexey Rodriguez produced a C fron-end, using the UUlibs combinators. I am attaching the file with the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lazy Parsing (ANN: vcd-0.1.4)

2010-04-28 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 27 apr 2010, at 22:12, Jason Dusek wrote: > So UU parsers can construct input? The perform an editing action on the input so it becomes a sentence of the language recognised. > The presence of an > empty list in the 2nd slot of the tuple is the only > indicator of errors? The parser wa

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lazy Parsing (ANN: vcd-0.1.4)

2010-04-27 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
How about: import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Parsing import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Examples pDate :: Pars (Int,Int,Int) pDate = (,,) <$> pNatural <* pDot <*> pNatural <* pDot <*> pNatural where pDot = pSym '.' and then: *Main> test pDate "3.4.5" Loading package syb-0.1.0.2 ... linkin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] which version is in the platform

2010-03-22 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
It seems that I am being served old pages by my web browser from the cache on my machine. By reloading the platform page, I suddenly am asked what system I do have, from weher I am referred to the 6.12 version of the platform, Doaitse On 22 mrt 2010, at 14:25, Don Stewart wrote: > doaitse: >>

[Haskell-cafe] which version is in the platform

2010-03-22 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On the page: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ I am told that the platform includes ghc-6.10.4, but if I click there on the "Haskell:batteries included" link to get to the page: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html its states there that I get 6.12.1? Doaitse ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] First time haskell - parse error!

2010-03-09 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 9 mrt 2010, at 20:04, boblettoj wrote: > > Hi, i am getting an error when trying to compile this part of my program, its > my first time using haskell and as lovely as it is it didn't give me very > much to go on in the error message! > > score :: String -> String -> String > score [s] [] =

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsers (Parsec and Iteratee-based Parsers)

2010-01-19 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 12 jan 2010, at 00:09, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hi John, thanks for responding. As I said I've been using Parsec quite a lot, but wonder if there is a different approach possible/feasible to parsing. Parsec (2x) isn't an "online" parser, ie, it doesn't produce a result before the whole

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsers for Text Adventures; in one line

2010-01-19 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
When cycling home I realised it could even be shorter: module Parse where import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Parsing import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Examples data Verb = Go | Get | Jump | Climb | Give deriving (Show) pCommand :: Pars Verb pCommand = foldr (\ c r -> c <$ pToken (show c) <|> r)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsers for Text Adventures; small typo corrected in example

2010-01-19 Thread S . Doaitse Swierstra
How about using one of the existing libraries, in this case uu- parsinglib: module Parse where import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Parsing import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Examples data Verb = Go | Get | Jump | Climb | Give deriving (Show) pCommand :: Pars String pCommand = foldr (<|>) pFail (ma

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsers for Text Adventures

2010-01-19 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
How about using one of the existing libraries, in this case uu- parsinglib: module Parse where import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Parsing import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Examples data Verb = Go | Get | Jump | Climb | Give deriving (Show) pCommand :: Pars String pCommand = foldr (<|>) pFail (ma

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec-like parser combinator that handles left recursion?

2009-12-08 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
useful in removing left recursion and even make your parsers look nicer and more intuitive, Doaitse Swierstra On 8 dec 2009, at 16:10, Adam Cigánek wrote: Hello there, Is there some other parser library, with similar nice API than Parsec, but which somehow handles left-recursive

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Wiki software?

2009-11-18 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
How about: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/orchid a simple, but nice wiki produced by one of our students Sebastiaan Visser, Doaitse Swierstra On 18 nov 2009, at 18:14, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hi, I'm finally about to organize myself, somewhat. And am going to use a wiki f

Re: [Haskell-cafe] simple parsing

2009-10-28 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Ok, I think this is a weird problem, but let us start. You want to parse a sequence of operands separated by an operator (we assume the ops are left associative): import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Parsing pWeird = pChainl pOperator pOperand An operand is apparently a non-empty list of digi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-28 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
rs-Programming-Languages-languages/dp/0444001875 - http://www.agfl.cs.ru.nl/papers/agpl.ps - http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/32/1/36 Doaitse Swierstra And a general definition for parsing single-digit numbers. This works for any set of non-terminals, so it is a reus

[Haskell-cafe] Re: uu-parsinglib pKeyword

2009-10-28 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
g the uu-parsinglib to parse a structured language and map the results to some proper data structures. Thanks to Prof Doaitse Swierstra (and other authors if any), it is fun to write a parser using this library. I've been sending private mails to Doaitse about my questions, who kindly gives

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec bug, or...?

2009-10-20 Thread S . Doaitse Swierstra
mited. I wouldn't even have used parsec for this, in spite of the comment I had made earlier about this, if I were not already using it in a different part of the project to parse individual records ("buy security for this price on this date", etc), so it was natural to add a bit m

[Haskell-cafe] Lecture Notes Advanced Functional programming available

2009-10-16 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I am happy to announce that the rworked lecture notes for the 6th Advance Functional programming summer school have become available. For further information about the lecture notes: http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/book/978-3-642-04651-3?cm_mmc=NBA-_-Oct-09_EAST_4063641-_-produc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec bug, or...?

2009-10-15 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 15 okt 2009, at 16:58, Uwe Hollerbach wrote: Hi, all, thanks for the further inputs, all good stuff to think about... although it's going to be a little while before I can appreciate the inner beauty of Doaitse's version! :-) The nice thing is that you do not have to understand the inner

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec bug, or...?

2009-10-14 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I could not resist this. The code import Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Parsing pCommand [] = pure [] pCommand xxs@(x:xs) = ((:) <$> pSym x <*> pCommand xs) `opt` xxs pCommands = amb . foldr (<|>) pFail . map pCommand $ ["banana", "chocolate", "frito", "fromage"] t :: String -> ([String], [Error

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What *is* a DSL?

2009-10-12 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
This problem of dynamically transforming grammars and bulding parsers out of it is addressed in: @inproceedings{1411296, author = {Viera, Marcos and Swierstra, S. Doaitse and Lempsink, Eelco}, title = {Haskell, do you read me?: constructing and composing efficient top-down parsers at runt

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Designing a DSL?

2009-10-05 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
s.uu.nl/pub/RUU/CS/techreps/CS-2004/2004-025a.pdf }}, Year = 2004} In a more abstract setting your question is also "How do I design a library", "How do I design a consistent theory", and "How do I model something". These questions are harder to answer ;-}

[Haskell-cafe] help with cabal; trying to escape from configuration hell

2009-09-22 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
I am trying to run happstack on my Mac, but unfortunately I am getting error messages as described in: http://code.google.com/p/happstack/issues/detail?id=88 The cure seems to be to downgrade to network-2.2.0.1, but unfortunately my installed cabal depends on network-2.2.1.4. I tried to re

[Haskell-cafe] Ph.D position, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

2009-09-08 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
uu.nl/ * about this vacancy can be obtained from Doaitse Swierstra (doai...@cs.uu.nl , +31 6 4613 6929). Send your application in pdf (or another non-proprietary format) to mailto:sciencep...@uu.nl with a cc to mailto:doai...@cs.uu.nl. on or before Sept 31, 2009. Mention vacancy nr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: moe html combinator

2009-08-30 Thread S . Doaitse Swierstra
On 28 aug 2009, at 08:11, Jason Dusek wrote: 2009/08/27 Bulat Ziganshin : ...stop reusing Prelude operators, in particular, replace "-" with "$"? I have to say, the `$ do` construct is an eyesore and `- do` is a lot easier on the eyes. Would it introduce ambiguity in the Haskell grammar if

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec: using two different parser for the same string

2009-08-10 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
#x27;t see an obvious way to use both libraries in one parsing module simulatiously. However, these are a very good news indeed, thank you 2009/8/9 S. Doaitse Swierstra The uu-parsinglib: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/uu-parsinglib/2.2.0/doc/html/Text-ParserCombinators-UU-Core.h

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec: using two different parser for the same string

2009-08-09 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
The uu-parsinglib: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/uu-parsinglib/2.2.0/doc/html/Text-ParserCombinators-UU-Core.html contains a combinator to achieve just this: -- parsing two alternatives and returning both rsults pAscii = pSym ('\000', '\254') pIntList = pParens ((p

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-02 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
lem, and maybe it opens the eyes of the medical establishment. Doaitse Swierstra On 2 jun 2009, at 11:18, wren ng thornton wrote: Tom Hawkins wrote: At the core, the fundamental problem is not that complicated. It's just storing and retrieving a person's various health events: che

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: new version of uu-parsinglib

2009-06-01 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
And rename "empty" to "fail"? You managed to confuse me since I always use pSucceed to recognise the empty string. Doaitse On 1 jun 2009, at 01:21, Ross Paterson wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 09:40:38PM +0200, S. Doaitse Swierstra wrote: A new version of the uu

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Lazy Parsing

2009-05-31 Thread S . Doaitse Swierstra
Dear Gunther, I am providing my solution, on which one can of course specialise in making sure that a valid date is parsed, which would be a bit more cumbersome; how should e.g. error correction be done. I prefer to test afterwards in such situations. Best, Doaitse module Guenther whe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: new version of uu-parsinglib

2009-05-31 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
A new version of the uu-parsinglib has been uploaded to hackage. It is now based on Control.Applicative where possible. Be warned that functions like some and many will be redefined in the future. Doaitse Swierstra ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lazy Parsing

2009-05-29 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
trickery! Doaitse Swierstra On 28 mei 2009, at 11:41, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Henning Thielemann wrote: I don't think that it is in general possible to use the same parser for lazy and strict parsing, just because of the handling of parser failure. Polyparse demonstrates that you ca

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lazy Parsing

2009-05-29 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
["'a'"], Inserted 'a' at position 4 expecting one of ["'a'"]]) ("a",[ Deleted 'b' at position 0 expecting one of ["'a'"]]) ("a",[ The token 'a'was not consumed by the parsing process.]) ([

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Writing a compiler in Hakell

2009-05-06 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
code for an embedded system in which case your approach does not work out. Doaitse Swierstra On 6 mei 2009, at 08:07, Rouan van Dalen wrote: Hi everyone. I am designing my own programming language. I would like to know what is the best way to go about writing my compiler in haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Question about implementing an off-side rule in Parsec 2

2009-04-28 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
. E.g. with a pBlock as we have in the uulib library to deal with the offside rule ;-} Hope you enjoy jumping into the deep, Doaitse Swierstra On 28 apr 2009, at 22:03, Bas van Gijzel wrote: Hey, Thanks for the help thusfar. These are interesting suggestions, and I think the occ

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

2009-04-24 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Unfortunately I think 4 man years is definitely below the minimum of the guesses I would get if I would ask the people in my group ;-} Doaitse On 23 apr 2009, at 16:13, John A. De Goes wrote: Let's turn this around. You invest 4 months of your life coming out with your own experimental H

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

2009-04-21 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
grammar based descriptions. If we had been interested in raising fierce discussions about n+k patterns or how and where cabal installs things, we could have easily achieved the same effect with much less effort. Doaitse Swierstra ___ Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and C++ program

2009-01-19 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
On 17 jan 2009, at 22:22, Derek Elkins wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 13:40 +0100, Apfelmus, Heinrich wrote: Eugene Kirpichov wrote: Well, your program is not equivalent to the C++ version, since it doesn't bail on incorrect input. Oops. That's because my assertion show . read = id is wro

[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: ChristmasTree 0.1 (excuses for second attempt)

2008-12-07 Thread S . Doaitse Swierstra
We are pleased to announce the availability of the package "ChristmasTree", which contains the code associated with our paper at the last Haskell symposium: @inproceedings{1411296, author = {Marcos Viera and S. Doaitse Swierstra and Eelco Lempsink}, title = {Haskell, do y

[Haskell-cafe] [Announce] TTTAS (with excuse for second attempt to post)

2008-12-07 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
We are pleased to announce the availability of the package "TTTAS", which contains the code associated with our paper at the coming TLDI workshop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSV09, author = {Arthur Baars and S. Doaitse Swierstra and Marcos Viera}, title = {Typed Transformations of Type

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OT: any haskell-friendly / functional programming friendly comp sci programs? (for a 30s guy who did his undergrad in liberal arts)

2007-02-05 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
may have offline, Doaitse Swierstra On Feb 5, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Thomas Hartman wrote: haskellers, I'm contemplating returning to school after a decade as a worker bee, and almost that long as a worker bee doing computer consulting / miscelaneous tech stuff. Ideally I'd like to get

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Channel9 Interview: What makes imperative programming so difficult

2007-01-31 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
expression: digest.chew.eat.serve.cook.chop.pluck.kill $ chicken we all have a definite feeling that after applying the functions, the original object is no longer available, and the FP view does not feel entirely natural. Doaitse Swierstra __

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-01-29 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
On Jan 29, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Yitzchak Gale wrote: After many years of OO Perl, I looked at Python. Within fifteen minutes I had switched, and I never looked back at Perl. A few years later, I had a need to hack into the Python interpreter. While reading up on that, I came across references to

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Request for a Simple Pretty Printing library

2006-12-14 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
; invisible (pp "}") and try render (res_word "let") 3. Doaitse On Dec 14, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Christian Maeder wrote: Doaitse Swierstra schrieb: The Prettyprint library you can download from: http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/HUT/Download I've looked into your module UU.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Request for a Simple Pretty Printing library

2006-12-13 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
= Text 0 l <|> text t <|> Text 0 r you should be set and done, Doaitse Swierstra On Dec 13, 2006, at 10:31 PM, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:58:25PM +, Neil Mitchell wrote: I've been using the HughesPJ pretty printing library, but I need a new comb

[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] open assistant professorship at Utrecht University, Software Technology

2006-10-04 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
/vacatures/en/62612.html Doaitse Swierstra ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] if-then-else as rebindable syntax (was Re: Why does Haskell have the if-then-else syntax?)

2006-07-27 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
king transitions from Java and C as smooth and surprise-free as possible (and this is already hard enough). So I strongly suggest to leave this to the next major redesign of the language. Doaitse Swierstra ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Small syntax question

2006-07-12 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
Jeroen Fokker has made Haskell syntax diagrams, which are part of lecture notes for first-year students. Maybe they are helpful to others too, Doaitse http://abaris.zoo.cs.uu.nl:8080/wiki/pub/FP/CourseLiterature/ haskellsyntax-main.pdf On Jul 11, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Thiago Arrais wrote:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Editors for Haskell

2006-06-04 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
One might want to take a look at: http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/projects/proxima/ where we have built (a.o.) an editing environment for Helium programs (a subset of Haskell), Doaitse On 2006 jun 02, at 10:57, Brian Hulley wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: Malcolm Wallace wrote: "Brian Hul

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Editors for Haskell

2006-05-30 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
ser with this parser, and that worked (contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get a copy of his code) - did you think about how to handle the offside rule? If not, the good news is that we have combinators for that too. Doaitse Swierstra Haskell already seems so very close to having this property -

[Haskell-cafe] Syntax macros

2004-05-15 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
We have all the machinery available. See: http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Center/SyntaxMacros It will be part of the UtrechtHaskellCompiler (UHC), that is being constructed with our toolset, and which recently strated to produce running code. You get the syntax macros "almost" for free if you build

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Splitting a list (Modified by Doaitse Swierstra)

2004-04-22 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
in (x:r):rr else []:munch p weight main = print (splitList 18 [1,5,3,17,8,9]) Doaitse Swierstra PS: note that your problem is a bit underspecified: -- what to return for an empty list -- what to do if a number is larger than the weight On 2004 apr 21, at 15:42, St

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Splitting a list

2004-04-21 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
int (splitList 18 [1,5,3,17,8,9]) Doaitse Swierstra PS: note that your problem is a bit underspecified: -- what to return for an empty list -- what to do if a number is larger than the weight On 2004 apr 21, at 15:42, Steve Schafer wrote: I have a list of integers, e.g.: [1,5,3,17,8,9] I want

Re: automaticly create the ana, cata, hylomorphisms

2003-11-07 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
ng. See: http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/twiki/bin/view/Center/ SoftwareDistributions and the follow the attribute grammar link. Best, Doaitse Swierstra On vrijdag, nov 7, 2003, at 16:09 Europe/Zurich, Marta Isabel Oliveira wrote: Ok, i read the page but i'm still stuck. I'm reading some pa

Re: Standalone Parser for Haskell Grammar

2003-09-11 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
in the tree, Doaitse Swierstra On woensdag, september 10, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: Hello! Does anyone know a reasonable standalone Parser for the Haskell Grammar? The only one i found was hsparser but it's still an alpha release and i get a few errors during compili

Re: Monads and Maybe

2003-08-21 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
-> p b -> p a ( *>) :: Parser p => p b -> p a -> p a etc Now one can combine parsers as in: pVal = (+) <$> pInteger <* pSymbol '+' <*> pInteger <|> (*) <$> pInteger <* pSymbol '*' <*> pInteger etc Should I change

Re: Combinator parsers

2000-09-14 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
mble better what one wants express than left recursive formulations. Doaitse -- ______ S. Doaitse Swierstra, Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University P.O.Box 80.089, 3508 TB UTRECHT, the

Re: Combinator parsers

2000-09-14 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
rs you can find there. This new version will also allow you to write scanners with the same set of combinators. We are working on a version that will also generate parsers. Off to ICFP now, Doaitse Swierstra At 3:27 PM +1100 9/15/00, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: >Doug Ransom <