Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-02-12 Thread Stefan Holdermans
Wolfgang, To be fair, the current version of Helium does support some overloading, Really? Are you talking about version 1.5? No, version 1.6, which was released just last week. See http:// www.cs.uu.nl/helium/. Cheers, Stefan ___ Haskell-p

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-02-11 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 14:11 schrieb jur: > [...] > To be fair, the current version of Helium does support some overloading, Really? Are you talking about version 1.5? > [...] Best wishes, Wolfgang ___ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@h

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-02-07 Thread jur
On Jan 31, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 19:33 schrieb Isaac Jones: [...] Have you looked at the Helium language / compiler? It's a stripped-down version of Haskell for teaching. Maybe that's what you're actually suggesting? I think this is a great

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 19:33 schrieb Isaac Jones: > [...] > Have you looked at the Helium language / compiler? It's a > stripped-down version of Haskell for teaching. Maybe that's what > you're actually suggesting? I think this is a great idea :) I think the current Helium version causes t

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-30 Thread Aatu Koskensilta
On Jan 31, 2006, at 12:20 AM, Isaac Jones wrote: It would be _great_ if someone on the committee, or anyone for that matter, would summarize the discussion weekly. Perhaps Donald will do that as part of Haskell Weekly News, but I'm sure he'd be glad to have some help. Any volunteers? I'll vo

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-30 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
> > Could a member of the committee arrange for a Haskell'-weekly > > message, please (similar to Haskell weekly, but collecting news > > headers and links from haskell', wiki, track, and internal committee > > discussions)? > > It would be _great_ if someone on the committee, or anyone for that

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-30 Thread Isaac Jones
"Claus Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No language can serve all of the people all of the time, but I think >> we should just do our best with a single standard. I think that the >> complexity of multiple languages / layers / standards would not be >> worth the payoff. > > My original unde

RE: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| My original understanding of the Haskell' effort was that it was *not* | intended as going for "Haskell 2", but rather as an update of Haskell 98. | | In other words, the target is Haskell 2005: | | - anything that was tried and tested by the end of 2005 is a potential | candidate for incl

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-30 Thread Claus Reinke
No language can serve all of the people all of the time, but I think we should just do our best with a single standard. I think that the complexity of multiple languages / layers / standards would not be worth the payoff. My original understanding of the Haskell' effort was that it was *not* in

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-30 Thread Isaac Jones
jur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 25, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Johannes Waldmann wrote: > >> Dear all, in the "mission statement" I read >> >>> We will strive to only include tried-and-true language features, >> >> but the current discussion seems to have a wider focus, >> i. e. it is more of a

Re: what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-25 Thread jur
On Jan 25, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Johannes Waldmann wrote: Dear all, in the "mission statement" I read We will strive to only include tried-and-true language features, but the current discussion seems to have a wider focus, i. e. it is more of a wish list. Indeed I think that this is a good id

what's the goal of haskell-prime?

2006-01-25 Thread Johannes Waldmann
Dear all, in the "mission statement" I read > We will strive to only include tried-and-true language features, but the current discussion seems to have a wider focus, i. e. it is more of a wish list. Indeed I think that this is a good idea (ask (future) Haskell users what they want) but it migh