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version of base in Haskell Platform
by Dennis Raddle 02 Jul '11

02 Jul '11

I just installed the latest Haskell Platform on Windows XP. Then I tried to install the musicxml package, and it says it needs base 3.something. How do I find out what version of base comes with a version of the Haskell Platform? Thanks, Dennis

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Problem building MusicXML
by Dennis Raddle 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

My problem is that "cabal install" just hangs at the line "Building HaXml-1.22..." and I don't know how to figure out what it's trying to do. Background: My main goal is to use the 'musicxml' package. On Windows XP, I installed Haskell Package 2010.1.0.0. (I needed base 3 for compatibility with musicxml.) I did 'cabal install musicxml'. First I got warning: Warning: c:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Application Data\cabal\config: Unrecognized field world-file on line 15 Then it built text-0.11.1.3, polyparse-1.7, then it started to build HaXml-1.22 and got as far as printing "Building HaXml-1.22..." but hung. No CPU was being consumed. Dennis

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Could not find file in module graph
by Øystein Kolsrud 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi! I'm using version 2.0.4 of Eclipse FP and I very often get an error saying "Could not find file in module graph.". I did a quick search on the web for this message, but all I could find was some old threads discussing an issue with this symptom (for instance http://code.google.com/p/scion-lib/issues/detail?id=36#c1) Does anyone know what the error means and how I can avoid it? -- Mvh Øystein Kolsrud

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GOTCHA! OpenGL window behaviour is mis-spelled...
by Sean Charles 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

This caught me out for several frustrating minutes until I finally saw the problem... package: Graphics.UI.GLUT.Begin data ActionOnWindowClose has three constructors, and I wanted the third one which I glanced at and then spelled it how I knew it *should* be: ContinueExecution which gave me an error, and finally I realised that as an English word it is in fact spelled incorrectly in the code, like so: ContinueExectuoin HTML Link: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GLUT/latest/doc/html/Graphics-U… Is this one of those "accepted things" as in, too difficult to change because it will break stuff or could it be changed ? All the best, Sean.

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Global variables
by ARJANEN Loïc Jean-David 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hello, For a pet project I need a global counter, giving how many times a given function was called. What would you use for that purpose ? Loic

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A first try
by Panagiotis Koutsourakis 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hello all, I've been spending some time recently learning Haskell. I am not a newbie in programming, and I've had some experience with lisp in the past, but I have not really studied functional programming. I am mostly seeking feedback regarding style, and glaring mistakes that I may make in some toy examples, but I am not sure if this is the proper place to ask. In case it is though, here is an attempt (not yet complete) at the word count program: http://pastebin.com/JZw22QGA Thanks in advance! -- Panagiotis Koutsourakis

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Re: [Haskell-beginners] Understanding category theory
by Arlen Cuss 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

On 30/06/2011 10:26 AM, Christopher Howard wrote: > Would anyone recommend a particular book or tutorial to help me > understand category theory? I've tried reading a few tutorials i've > googled, but even the "beginner" ones are very difficult and seem to > assume a lot. I've just started reading this, found on /r/haskell on Reddit: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.78.7317&rep=rep1&t… It's quite readable, may require a little effort though!

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Re: [Haskell-beginners] Understanding category theory
by Jake Penton 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

On 2011-06-29, at 8:26 PM, Christopher Howard wrote: > Would anyone recommend a particular book or tutorial to help me understand category theory? I've tried reading a few tutorials i've googled, but even the "beginner" ones are very difficult and seem to assume a lot. > I just picked up the book by Benjamin Pierce entitled Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists. It is pretty good; at least I am making some headway in it. I have another more recent book by Pierce called Types and Programming Languages, which I found to be very readable, so I am a bit of a fan of Pierce. It is not an easy topic, IMHO. I have a B.Sc. in math, and am currently doing a master's degree in software engineering. I find functional programming literature that purports to be tutorial in nature (as opposed to research oriented) some of the most impenetrable stuff I have ever read. Reading it is like trying to eat a bowl of steam with a fork. Good luck.

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Understanding category theory
by Christopher Howard 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Would anyone recommend a particular book or tutorial to help me understand category theory? I've tried reading a few tutorials i've googled, but even the "beginner" ones are very difficult and seem to assume a lot. Sent from my HTC

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opengl and application state
by Sean Charles 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

How!?!?! LOL I am getting back into OpenGL again with Haskell now and I have a program that listens to all the callbacks and prints stuff out, terminates on Ctrl+X and draws a grey sphere. Earth shattering. If I was using C/C++ I'd be using a (shudder) global pointer to a record containing state that the render callback would use to know what to do. I smell state monads or something but I cannot see how to pass them into "the loop". I want to organise my code so that all input events cause a record to be updated and then the render part just uses the current values to draw the right things, with the obvious caveat of "what if a key event happens half way through the render phase." MVars? Threads? What??? I'm a real newb on this right now! How do I,or what is a "best practice" for passing a continuously changing record across calls given that the "displayCallback" doesnt have any obvious place to plug one on? In Erlang or even Haskell, there is the idion of making a tail call back to yourself with the new modified record and so on but I cannot figure out where to actually pass it around! Thanks in advance. Sean.

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