Hi generic programmers, I would like to emphasize the release of the Utrecht Haskell Compiler version 1.1.0---this time with built-in generics! Derivable type class functions are now implemented within Haskell, and you can have your own derivable type classes. In particular, you can also derive Functor, for instance. The mechanism is described in our paper soon to be presented at the Haskell Symposium [1]. So if you feel a bit experimental, try it out, and please report any problems you might run into. Cheers, Pedro [1] José Pedro Magalhães, Atze Dijkstra, Johan Jeuring, and Andres Löh. A generic deriving mechanism for Haskell. http://dreixel.net/research/pdf/gdmh_draft.pdf ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Atze Dijkstra <atze@cs.uu.nl> Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 16:30 Subject: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC), version 1.1.0 To: Haskell@haskell.org, haskell-cafe Cafe <haskell-cafe@haskell.org> Utrecht Haskell Compiler -- second release 1.1.0 ================================================ The UHC team is happy to announce the second public release of the Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC). UHC supports almost allmost all Haskell98 and Haskell2010 features plus some experimental extensions. The compiler runs on MacOSX, Windows (cygwin), and various Unix flavors. This second release has the following highlights relative to the previous first release: * Supports most of the Haskell2010 features. * Generic deriving [1]. * UHC knows about packages, and Cabal version 1.9.3 and later have basic support for UHC, so that Cabal can be used to build UHC packages. * For the default backend libraries are provided until including package haskell98. * The runtime system is no longer dependent on Boehm garbage collector, but uses UHCs own, a swap space collector allowing parameterization with backend specifics. * More programs from the nofib test suite compile and run. * Many smaller and larger problems fixed. For more info see http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/UHC Getting started & Download -------------------------- UHC is available for download as source distribution via the UHC home page: http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/UHC Here you will also find instructions to get started and the specifics of what UHC can and cannot do. Status of the implementation ---------------------------- Over the past year much effort by many people has been put into improving UHC, in particular to make it compile and run more library modules and test programs. Although the UHC project is very much work in progress overall reliability has improved, bugs have been fixed, and some Hackage packages compile. Warning ------- Although we think that the compiler is stable enough to compile substantial Haskell programs, we do not recommend yet to use it for any serious development work in Haskell. We ourselves use the GHC as a development platform! We think however that it provides a great platform for experimenting with language implementations, language extensions, etc. Mailing lists ------------- For UHC users and developers respectively: http://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/uhc-users http://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/uhc-developers Bug reporting ------------- Please report bugs at: http://code.google.com/p/uhc/issues/list The UHC Team [1] Jose Pedro Magalhaes, Atze Dijkstra, Johan Jeuring, and Andres Loeh. A generic deriving mechanism for Haskell. http://dreixel.net/research/pdf/gdmh_draft.pdf (see Section 7.1 for the discussion on constrained datatypes) - Atze - Atze Dijkstra, Department of Information and Computing Sciences. /|\ Utrecht University, PO Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands. / | \ Tel.: +31-30-2534118/1454 | WWW : http://www.cs.uu.nl/~atze<http://www.cs.uu.nl/%7Eatze>. /--| \ Fax : +31-30-2513971 .... | Email: atze@cs.uu.nl ............ / |___\ _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell