On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:54:42PM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> John> indentation.
>
> Automatic indentation is only one aspect of Emacs modes, and as far as I
> am concerned not nearly the most important one.
>
> Here's a quick test: put the cursor in front of a triple-quoted string,
> then
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:30:50PM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
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> John> Why not just go the Python way and use """ ? That is, three
> John> literal quotes at the beginning and end. After all, Python has
> John> lifted quite a few things from Haskell. Time to return the
> John> favor. ;-)
>
>
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:39:34PM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> If you do this at all, reuse the regular quotes, don't invent yet
> another weird and wonderful lexical syntax. Haskell is already bad
> enough that way, with \ used for lambda and so on. @" would be okay I
> guess.
Why not just go
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:45:56PM +0100, Alistair Bayley wrote:
> Apologies if this has been covered already... I've searched the
> haskell-prime list archive and not found anything on this.
>
> I'd like to submit a request for a fairly trivial feature: multi-line
> text literals in source, AKA h
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 07:15:28PM +1000, Hoan Ton-That wrote:
> Hello Happy Haskellers,
>
> I would like to humbly suggest that we replace all Int
> functions in the prelude with the corresponding generic
> ones. These are: drop, take, length, splitAt, replicate and
> (!!).
>
> If at all possib
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> John, have you seen this?
>
> http://haskell.galois.com/cgi-bin/haskell-prime/trac.cgi/wiki/Extensible
> Exceptions
Yes, and maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think it quite helps.
I followed the link to the example page at:
Hello,
One thing that bugs me about Haskell is that exceptions are not
extensible.
I don't know how to craft a good solution, but perhaps if I explain the
problem well, someone would come up with one.
In a language such as Python or Java, and exception is an object.
Let's consider Python for a
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:49:53PM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
> > threading if it's available, but can degrade gracefully if not? Should
> > I be forced to use something like cpphs to detect the presence of
> > threading in advance? It would be better to detect this at runtime than
> > fail to co
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:51:14PM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
> > If so, we should specify what exception is raised if, say, forkIO is
> > called on such a system. We should also make it clear that
> > single-threaded implementations are required of things such as MVars.
> > Finally, we should add
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:07:53AM +, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> threads, and I assume that since a non-concurrent implementation has
> only one thread, that thread will be trying to MVar-synchronise with
> something that does not exist, and hence be blocked for ever. I can
Not necessarily. An
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:56:41PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:03:08AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I know, of course, that Java green threads and Haskell forkIO threads
> > are called "threads", but I personally believe its misleading t
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:00:23PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> > TZ> The design of Haskell was so great, that we could add concurrency as
> > TZ> a library without introducing any problems... but we have
> > TZ> concurrency in the standard anyway...
> >
> > concurrency should go in
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:00:32AM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:40:27AM -, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> > The interface can be a library, but (a) what libraries are available is
> > part of the language definition and (b) it's hard to build a good
> > implementation wi
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:46:13PM -0800, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> If Haskell Prime is going to have certain type extensions rolled in, can
> we make changes to the standard libraries that take advantage of these?
I would hope so. But then, just what are the standard libraries
anymore? The Haske
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