Am Sonntag, 19. Juli 2009 23:42 schrieben Sie:
> On Jul 18, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > I don’t think, it’s a good idea to have German identifiers, since
> > Haskell’s keywords are English.
>
> Put it this way: if Haskell's keywords were in German, do you suppose I
> would write
On Jul 18, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
I don’t think, it’s a good idea to have German identifiers, since
Haskell’s
keywords are English.
Put it this way: if Haskell's keywords were in German, do you
suppose I would write my Haskell code in anything but English?
Does the fact
On 18 Jul 2009, at 13:26, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Am Samstag, 18. Juli 2009 06:31 schrieben Sie:
On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
So I should upload a package with German identifiers to Hackage?
Sure, why not? The fact that I can't read it is my loss, not your
fault,
a
Am Samstag, 18. Juli 2009 06:31 schrieben Sie:
> On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > So I should upload a package with German identifiers to Hackage?
>
> Sure, why not? The fact that I can't read it is my loss, not your fault,
> and there will be plenty of other German-reading
On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
So I should upload a package with German identifiers to Hackage?
Sure, why not? The fact that I can't read it is my loss,
not your fault, and there will be plenty of other German-
reading Haskellers to benefit from it. I've happily worked
On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Probably just because British English took it from American English.
It’s
similar to the “German” word “Computer”. It’s not native.
The spelling "program" goes back to 1633 at least;
it cannot then have referred to computers, and is
not li
Wolfgang Jeltsch schrieb:
> Am Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2009 05:27 schrieben Sie:
>> On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
>>> Why do we use English for identifiers? Because English is the language of
>>> computer science. What English should we use? It’s tempting to say, we
>>> should use
Am Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2009 05:27 schrieben Sie:
> On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > Why do we use English for identifiers? Because English is the language of
> > computer science. What English should we use? It’s tempting to say, we
> > should use the original English, which
Am Dienstag, 7. Juli 2009 14:42 schrieb Robin Green:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:44:51 +0200
>
> Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > PASCAL
> > uses “program”, not “programme”,
>
> The word program (as in computer program) is spelled program in both
> British and American English.
Probably just because Brit
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Am Freitag, 10. Juli 2009 05:26 schrieb rocon...@theorem.ca:
I find it amazing that you independently chose to spell colour with
a `u'.
It makes me feel better about my choice.
I have to admit that it makes me unhappy. :-(
Why do we use
> It’s tempting to say, we should
> use the original English, which is British English.
Some suggest the original English remained in Britain when the North
American colonies were founded; others claim it was brought to the
Americas by the British settlers, leaving a pale imitation back in
Britain
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:44:51 +0200
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> PASCAL
> uses “program”, not “programme”,
The word program (as in computer program) is spelled program in both
British and American English.
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Am Freitag, 10. Juli 2009 05:26 schrieb rocon...@theorem.ca:
> I find it amazing that you independently chose to spell colour with a `u'.
> It makes me feel better about my choice.
I have to admit that it makes me unhappy. :-(
Why do we use English for identifiers? Because English is the languag
Max Rabkin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Andrew
Coppin wrote:
A few reasons:
1. I never knew it existed. ;-)
A good reason. However, it's good to do a quick search over Hackage
before uploading (or before writing) so you know what's out there.
Also, if you hadn't used an "AC-" pre
On Jul 4, 2009, at 15:01 , Max Rabkin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Andrew
Coppin wrote:
3. It doesn't appear to provide arithmetic over colours.
It provides darken, blend and addition (though addition is called
mappend rather than (+)). signum, abs and fromInteger don't make a
huge a
Paul Johnson wrote:
Andrew Coppin wrote:
Well, no, because now I'm going to have to spend a few hours trying
to find out what CIE is before I can even use that library.
I think really it's just aimed at a different problem. It looks like
it's trying to specify actual real-world colours. [It's
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Andrew
Coppin wrote:
>>> 2. It's mind-blowingly complex.
>>>
>>
>> Colour *is* complex. Which is why I'm so glad Russell O'Connor did all
>> the hard work for me :)
>>
>
> Well, no, because now I'm going to have to spend a few hours trying to find
> out what CIE is b
Max Rabkin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Andrew
Coppin wrote:
A few reasons:
1. I never knew it existed. ;-)
A good reason. However, it's good to do a quick search over Hackage
before uploading (or before writing) so you know what's out there.
Fair enough. ;-)
Also, if
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Andrew
Coppin wrote:
> A few reasons:
>
> 1. I never knew it existed. ;-)
A good reason. However, it's good to do a quick search over Hackage
before uploading (or before writing) so you know what's out there.
Also, if you hadn't used an "AC-" prefix, you'd have had
Felipe Lessa wrote:
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 06:56:44PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/AC-Colour-1.1.1
Why don't you use colour[1]?
[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/colour
A few reasons:
1. I never knew it existed. ;-)
2. It's mind-blowingly
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 06:56:44PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/AC-Colour-1.1.1
Why don't you use colour[1]?
[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/colour
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OK, so having released AC-HalfInteger, I got slightly carried away and
released three other small packages. These are packages that many
programs I write all end up using. I'm forever copying these files, so I
made them into actual bonafide packages.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/AC-Vect
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