Re: [Haskell-cafe] Pure Haskell Printf

2004-11-17 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 10:37, Henning Thielemann wrote: Variable length argument lists are really a mess. Why are people so keen on them? What is the advantage over a plain list as single argument? Is vsprintf %s, your age is %s\n [John, show (10::Integer)] really too complicated? The

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Calling Haskell from .Net Environment

2004-10-29 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On Friday 29 October 2004 03:48, David Lo wrote: Dear all, I'm new in Haskell. I need to port a haskell application written by someone else to be called by a .Net C# application. Please kindly advise on which option to pursue. Any helps will really be appreciated. The easiest path I know

Re: [Haskell-cafe] DSL for business logic

2004-10-19 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On Monday 18 October 2004 21:35, Bhinderwala, Shoeb wrote: Are monadic programming concepts essential to create a DSL. I am just learning Haskell and haven't grasped fully the concepts of monadic programming yet. I suggested using monads and arrows for DSLs is because they provide a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I determin the function name passed in?

2004-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On Thursday 07 October 2004 12:20, Keith Wansbrough wrote: You can't do this in Haskell.  In Haskell, functions are very lightweight things, and often they are inlined or compiled away in some way leaving no trace at runtime.  So there's nothing to reflect on.  This is in contrast to a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Integrating Haskell into a J2EE environment

2004-10-06 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 23:33, Bhinderwala, Shoeb wrote: I came across a few papers that talk about writing a DSL with Haskell as the underlying support language. How is this done. Is it possible to create a sort of domain specific business scripting language easily. How does that then