Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-07 Thread Matus Tejiscak
On Pi, 2009-11-06 at 17:25 -0500, Brent Yorgey wrote: On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 03:29:47PM +, Stephen Tetley wrote: Hello all, Are any of the of the more exotic recursion schemes definable without a least-fixed point /Mu/ type? Note that Haskell datatypes have a built-in implicit mu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-07 Thread wren ng thornton
Matus Tejiscak wrote: On Pi, 2009-11-06 at 17:25 -0500, Brent Yorgey wrote: On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 03:29:47PM +, Stephen Tetley wrote: Hello all, Are any of the of the more exotic recursion schemes definable without a least-fixed point /Mu/ type? Note that Haskell datatypes have a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Coppin
Matus Tejiscak wrote: zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms Please tell me this isn't a real technical term. o_O As for concrete suggestions... I've always thought we could do more to use static information about the program to aid runtime GC. It's no deep secret that destructive updates are

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Deniz Dogan
2009/11/5 Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com: Matus Tejiscak wrote: zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms Please tell me this isn't a real technical term. o_O http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Zygohistomorphic_prepromorphisms Still can't tell if it's a joke or not... -- Deniz Dogan

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Stefan Holdermans
Andrew, As for concrete suggestions... I've always thought we could do more to use static information about the program to aid runtime GC. It's no deep secret that destructive updates are essentially like a compile-time / coding-time GC operation. You determine before runtime that the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Patrick Brannan
And we wonder why Haskell isn't mainstream... On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Deniz Dogan deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/5 Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com: Matus Tejiscak wrote: zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms Please tell me this isn't a real technical term. o_O

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Anton van Straaten
Deniz Dogan wrote: 2009/11/5 Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com: Matus Tejiscak wrote: zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms Please tell me this isn't a real technical term. o_O http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Zygohistomorphic_prepromorphisms Still can't tell if it's a joke or not...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Roel van Dijk
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Matus Tejiscak wrote: zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms Please tell me this isn't a real technical term. o_O You can even generalize them: g_prepro_zygo :: (Functor f, Comonad w) = GAlgebra f w b - Dist f w -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Stefan Holdermans wrote: http://people.cs.uu.nl/stefan/pubs/hage08heap.html Getting connection refused on that. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Deniz Dogan
2009/11/6 Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com: Stefan Holdermans wrote:    http://people.cs.uu.nl/stefan/pubs/hage08heap.html Getting connection refused on that. Try this one, from Google's cache: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydjuw2j -- Deniz Dogan

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Deniz Dogan
2009/11/6 Deniz Dogan deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com: 2009/11/6 Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com: Stefan Holdermans wrote:    http://people.cs.uu.nl/stefan/pubs/hage08heap.html Getting connection refused on that. Try this one, from Google's cache: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydjuw2j

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Stefan Holdermans
Erik, http://people.cs.uu.nl/stefan/pubs/hage08heap.html Getting connection refused on that. Don't know: it still works for me. Cheers, Stefan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-05 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Stefan Holdermans wrote: Erik, http://people.cs.uu.nl/stefan/pubs/hage08heap.html Getting connection refused on that. Don't know: it still works for me. Working for me as well now. Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de

[Haskell-cafe] Master's thesis topic sought

2009-11-04 Thread Matus Tejiscak
Hello, -Cafe, I'm looking for an interesting topic to hack on in my thesis. The thesis should be rather theoretical/abstract (writing a mail client in Haskell is not, for example), dealing with FP or related fields. I've had a few (blurry) ideas, ranging from investigating (possibilities for)