Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal Install & Links to Source from Haddock Docs

2008-12-22 Thread R Hayes
askellInstalls/smallInstalls/ pureMD5-0.2.3>cabal haddock --hyperlink-source 2008/12/21 R Hayes : Is there a way I can get Haddock Docs WITH links to source (local) from modules installed with "cabal install xxx"? Getting the docs themselves is pretty easy by changing either ~/.cab

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal Install & Links to Source from Haddock Docs

2008-12-20 Thread R Hayes
Is there a way I can get Haddock Docs WITH links to source (local) from modules installed with "cabal install xxx"? Getting the docs themselves is pretty easy by changing either ~/.cabal/ config or using --enable-documentation. Automatically generating the source (colourised or not) and in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Transformation sequence

2007-10-22 Thread R Hayes
I know that this is a resolved question, but wouldn't Huet's Zipper also work for this On Oct 20, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Alfonso Acosta wrote: On 10/20/07, Mads Lindstrøm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am not a monad-expect, so I may be wrong, but wouldn't a writer monad be more appropriate?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Do you trust Wikipedia?

2007-10-18 Thread R Hayes
shai dorsai On Oct 18, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Oct 18, 2007, at 19:53 , John Meacham wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:31:10AM +0100, PR Stanley wrote: Do you trust mathematical materials on Wikipedia? Certainly! I honestly think wikipedia is one of man's gr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal, lib and exe in one

2007-05-02 Thread R Hayes
I think Simon is right, and not just from a Haskell point of view. Allowing a package to contain a both a library and an executable makes the behavior of the package system less obvious. That's not to say that it can't behave "correctly", but that it can't behave both "correctly" and in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How Albus Dumbledore would sell Haskell

2007-04-25 Thread R Hayes
I don't know how many of the other people on this list are actually going to *be* at OSCON. I will. I think it is important to think about the kinds of problems the audience is trying to solve, as well as the context in which they are trying to solve them. For the most part, the attende

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How Albus Dumbledore would sell Haskell

2007-04-18 Thread R Hayes
In general, problems that would lose millions of dollars are noticed very quickly. Quants are constantly analyzing the sources of shortfall in implementing strategies. Also, time to market is generally more important than correctness. It's much better to have a strategy that mostly wor

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell

2007-04-17 Thread R Hayes
On Apr 17, 2007, at 4:46 PM, David Brown wrote: R Hayes wrote: They *enjoy* debugging ... I have to say this is one of the best things I've found for catching bad programmers during interviews, no matter what kind of system it is for. I learned this the hard way after watching so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell

2007-04-17 Thread R Hayes
h the fact the the fusion optimization is in the *Library*, not baked in to the compiler). At a minimum, it shows that being able to reason about programs rigorously can have a payoff in a currency that they value. R Hayes rfhayes<>@reillyhayes.com On Apr 16

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Mathematics in Haskell

2007-04-02 Thread R Hayes
Wouldn't this be a good discussion for the Haskell Prime List? Reilly Hayes +1 415 388 3903 (office) +1 415 846 1827 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Andrzej Jaworski wrote: I too was put off by the Num issues though--strange mixture of sophisticated category theory an