Re: [Haskell-cafe] building unix package on windows

2008-09-08 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
Those headers simply do not exist under windows. There's a reason it's called 'Unix' :P Perhaps mingw32 or cygwin could help, as those packages make an attempt at emulating (so to speak) the unix environment. On 08/09/2008, at 17:06, "jean-christophe mincke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Compiler's bane

2008-08-31 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
2008/9/1 Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ryan Ingram wrote: >> >> What are you trying to get from the "let" binding? Sharing? >> > > Convinience. > > let x = foo in bar > > is so much easier to write than > > (\x -> bar) foo > > when foo and/or bar is large. > > Trouble is, as soon as you a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Compiler's bane

2008-08-27 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
2008/8/28 Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You can get rid of all recursive bindings by transforming them into a > use of a fixpoint combinator. > And then you can use a non-recursive definition of the fixpoint > combinator, and never worry about recursive bindings again. This[1] might be

[Haskell-cafe] GHC ARM Hackathon (Re: Haskell on ARM )

2008-07-02 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
Sydney, Australia. San Diego's a bit of a stretch :) > Jeremy Apthorp said: >> it'll also require that I significantly strip down the runtime system, as >> the current RTS won't fit in 4M > > Do you have a plan for how to do this? Maybe we can invite a Simon to t

Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Topkata)

2008-06-29 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
2008/6/30 Jeremy Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have successfully run hugs on the Nokia N770. hugs has also been successfully run on the Nintendo DS, as far as I'm aware. However, my aim is to be able to write high-performance applications (say, games) in haskell. An interpreter just isn't fast eno

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Call Graph Tool?

2008-06-26 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
2008/6/27 Ivan Miljenovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > C.M.Brown kent.ac.uk> writes: >> I have approx. 100+ source files and I was wondering if anyone has a tool >> that would let me see a visual call graph for the source files; i.e. a >> visual hierarchy of which module is imported by what, and so fort

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-06-26 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
2008/6/25 Braden Shepherdson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeremy Shaw wrote: >> >> If any does attempt to build for the ARM, please, please, please, >> document what you do in the wiki. And, if you do, edit the wiki as you >> go, you definitely won't be able to remember what you did after the >> fact. (O

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Function Precedence

2008-04-01 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
On 01/04/2008, PR Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > If > f x = x > and > g y = y > then > f g x > returns an error because f takes only one argument. Why can't we have > function application implemented outwardly (inside-out). So > f g x would be applied with > gx first followed b

Re: [Haskell-cafe] "GADT" rhymes with "cat"

2008-03-16 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
On 16/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Ashley Yakeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > "GADT" rhymes with "cat". The "d" is silent, like the Danish "godt", or > > the German "Stadt", or the American trademark "Bundt". > > > I pronounce it so that it rhymes with "ADT". >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] anybody can tell me the pronuncation of "haskell"?

2008-01-29 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS. If you think that "arigato" is a genuine Japanese word, well, check > how the appropriately translated word is spelled in Portuguese... Another Japanese word adopted from Portuguese is their word for "bread": "pan". Jeremy

[Haskell-cafe] anybody can tell me the pronuncation of "haskell"?

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
On 29/01/2008, Tim Chevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/28/08, Jeremy Apthorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 29/01/2008, Tim Chevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Haskell", stress on the first syllable; the first syllable is like &

Re: [Haskell-cafe] anybody can tell me the pronuncation of "haskell"?

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
On 29/01/2008, Tim Chevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Haskell", stress on the first syllable; the first syllable is like > the word "has" and the second syllable is pronounced with a schwa > where the "e" is written. > > Sometimes you will hear people stress the second syllable, but that is >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-Support in Ohloh

2008-01-19 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/01/2008, Reinier Lamers wrote: > > Op 17-jan-2008, om 1:21 heeft Joachim Breitner het volgende geschreven: > > > > They explicitly write that they want haskell support, and the oldest > > open bug report on their page is about this: > > > > http

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functions are first class values in C

2007-12-22 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
On 23/12/2007, Peter Verswyvelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cristian Baboi wrote > > Lazy constant in C: > > int C1 (){ return 7; } > > Not really, this is not lazy, since it always recomputes the value "7". Actually GCC will happily optimise this away in a