August 2003 - Glasgow-haskell-users

Congratulation!!!
by OY KEIKKAUS 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

OY KEIKKAUS NETHERLANDS SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY, n.l, BURDENSTRAAT 21B, 1000 DS AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS. TO THE MANAGER FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, REF: OYL /2551256003/22 BATCH: 14/0017/IPD ATTENTION: SIRRE/ AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today,30th of Augst winners of the OYKEIKKAUS NETHERLANDS SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY/ INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on 24TH Sept. 2002. Your company,attached to ticket number 025-1146-1992-750, with serial number 2113-22 drew the lucky numbers 13-15-22-37-39-43, and consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$3.6m in cash credited to file REF NO. OYL/2551256003/22. This is from total prize of US$80,800,000.00 shared among the seventeen international winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form 15 million names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe and North America and Africa as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually. CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now deposited with a company insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of you prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes US$1.3billion International Lottery. To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent; canond Gorge, diamondsource_production(a)yahoo.fr,FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER, GLOBAL CROSSING,AMSTERDAM, n.l , For due processing and remittance of your prize to a designated account of your choice. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 16 th sept, 2003. After this date, all funds will abe returned as unclaimed. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely, FRANK KLUVET THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, OY KEIKKAUS NETHERLANDS SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY, n.l. N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. SORRY FOR THE LATE INFORMATION THANKS OY KEIKKAUS.

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RE: Exhaustive Pattern-Matching
by Simon Marlow 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:57:27PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > GHC tries to do so, but sometimes gets it wrong. See the > > -fwarn-incomplete-patterns flag. We'd appreciate it if > someone could > > overhaul this code - it's been on the wish list for a long time. > > As a matter of curiosity, do you have some examples as to when GHC > gets it wrong? There's one in the bug database: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=485324&group_id =8032&atid=108032 And I think a couple more have been reported on ghc-bugs, Google should be able to find them. Cheers, Simon

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GHC runs unregisterised on x64-64
by Simon Marlow 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

GHC just produced its first working binary on x86-64 :-D $ uname -a Linux amd64-linux1 2.4.19-SMP #1 SMP Thu Jul 17 21:37:10 UTC 2003 x86_64 unknown $ cat hello.hs import System.Info main = print System.Info.arch >> print System.Info.os $ ./ghc-6.0.1/ghc/compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace hello.hs $ file a.out a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped $ ./a.out "x86_64" "linux" $ Unregisterised, no GHCi so far. I had to make precisely two changes to the GHC source code: one to the configure script to recognise this platform, and one to the known hairy bit of the RTS that handles memory allocation (ghc/rts/MBlock.h). The second of these changes *should* go away when I figure out how best to generically handle 64-bit arches in the MBlock code (there's already generic 32-bit support). As a side-effect, I've written a bunch of instructions on cross-compiling GHC for a new platform, which I'll put in the porting section of the Building Guide. Cheers, Simon

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Returned mail: User unknown
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

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TAYLOR
by taylor_jr＠excite.com 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

ATTENTION: THE PRESIDENT/CHAIRMAN. CEO/MD First, may I solicit your confidentiality in this transaction, this by virtue of its nature. I am Mr Lutherking taylor Jr, a cousin to the president Charles Taylor of Liberia . As a result of the increasing rebel hostility in my country and the recent indictment of Charles Taylor by the international war crimes tribunal, he has mandated me to look for a reliable partner who will urgently assist in the collection of consignment of boxes containing cash of (US$22.5M) he kept in safe custody with a security management company in Spain and it is registered as farmily valiables. We need a foreigner whom we will portray as the bona-fide owner of the consignment to prevent the company from finding out the consignment belongs to president Taylor and thereby confiscating such because of the current military fiasco in my country. Thereafter, this fund will be invested to your company or you advice us on any lucrative project to put the fund into. The president has handed over to me the title documents, and all necessary arrangements have been made to perfect the business . I will want to be guaranteed that you will be able to handle this huge amount of money for an investment project.Upon receipt of your positive response, I will suggest we meet possible in Spain for us to work out modalities concerning the investment of the money and the ratio you will receive after the collection of the boxes from the security company in Spain. Therefore , I will be grateful if you handle this as top priority because this is one opportunity we can not afford to loose. Please contact me on this email address( taylor_jr(a)excite.com or taylor_jnr(a)excite.com) I urge you to please keep this transaction very confidential, as I am expecting your urgent reply to indicate your interest, however if you are not interested to assist us, you let me know urgently to enable me contact another willing partner. Tel: +34-680-902-518 Best Regards Lutherking Taylor Jr

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Content violation
by Cliff_SMTP_Gateway＠usafa.af.mil 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Content violation found in email message. From: glasgow-haskell-users(a)haskell.org To: C03Troy.Cooper(a)usafa.af.mil Subject: Re: Details Matching Subject: re: details

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RE: ghci with -prof
by Simon Marlow 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

> running ghci with -prof turned on makes it die immediately (with an > appropriate message about this combination being illegal). however, i > find that i would almost always *rather* run ghci with -prof turned on > than without it. i don't particularly want to create > profiles, but i'd > really like stack backtraces in ghci. > > how much effort would be required to allow ghci to (at least) *use* > profiled objects, if not build them itself? Not trivial, I suspect. When -prof is turned on, lots of conventions change, including the layout of heap objects and info tables. This means the whole binary has to be compiled with -prof: that includes GHCi itself. The byte-code back-end would need some work to make it generate and interpret byte codes in a profiled world. Cheers, Simon

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CONFIDENCIAL BUSINESS ASISTANCE.
by unknown＠example.com 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Good Day Friend, With warm heart I offer my friendship, and my greetings, and I hope this letter meets you in good time. It will be surprising to you to receive this proposal from me since you do not know me personally. However, I am sincerely seeking your confidence in this transaction, which I propose with my free mind and as a person of integrity and from a family with high moral respect . My name is Dickson Mubane, the first son of Mapele Mubane, of the most popular black farmer from Zimbabwe, murdered in the land dispute in my country. As led by my instict, My motherand Idecided to contact you through email, after searching for contacts via the internet,as it is the only means I can contact anybody since I am cutting off ties with Zimbabwe for security and safety reasons. However, I apologize if this is not acceptable to you. The purpose of this letter is to seek your most needed assistance in a business venture. Due to the land and political problems in Zimbabwe, as a result of President Robert Mugabe's introduction of new Land Act Reform wholly affecting the rich white farmers and the few rich black farmers, and his desire to hold on to power for life, my father for saw the danger that came in Zimbabwe. Before he was murdered, he withdrew all of our business foreign accounts in dollars and sold up our shares in major companies. We then went to SOUTH AFRICA to deposit the sum of US$50.million (Fifty million, US dollars),in a private security company. This money was deposited with this Private Security company for safety and security reasons, and was to be used for the purchase of land, new machines and chemicals establishment of new farms in Europe. President Mugabe's support for the violent Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the society, led to the murder of my beloved father and other innocent lives. I was continually threatened to abandon my inheritance from my father after he was murdered. I resited for a while, but when the danger became unbearable, and I survived two murder attempts, I fled Zimbabwe. I am currently staying in the Netherlands where I am seeking political asylum. In fact my decision to come here to seek asylum, is because the security company from South Africa, has a branch here, and they have moved the deposit from their office in Johannesburg down here. I need you to assist in receiving this consignment from the security compamy. Since the law of Netherlands prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker) to be involved in such transactions and my mother advised that it will be better for our foreign partner to help receive this fund to avoid any eye brown being raised by Robert Mugabe, this is why I am seeking a genuine and reliable partner,who will assist in receiving the funds and also investing it wisely in a profitable venture.You have to understand that this decision taken by me entrusts my future and in your hands, as a result of the safe keeping of this money. If you accept to assist me, all I want you to do for me, is to assist with arrangements to claim the deposit from the security company from their office here in The Netherlands, as it has now been transfered from Johannesburg,South Africa to their branch in The Netherlands. The company will be legally informed of you representing my family. For your assistance, I have two options for you. Firstly you can choose to have 10% of the money for your assistance, and helping my family investing this funds, or you can go into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country. Whichever the option you want, please to notify me in your reply. I have also set aside 1% of this money for all kinds of expenses that come our way in the process of this transaction, and 4% of the total sum for Charity donation. If you prefer to accept the 10% for assisting in representing my family to receive this funds, then 85%will be left for my family. Please, I want you to maintain the absolute secrecy for the purpose of this transaction. I look forward to your reply and co-operation, and I thank you in advance as I anticipate your co-operation.You can reach me on my private line which is or via email dickson010(a)netscape.net Sincerely, Dickson Mubane. PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM THE LINKS BELOW. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm

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ghci with -prof
by Hal Daume 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

running ghci with -prof turned on makes it die immediately (with an appropriate message about this combination being illegal). however, i find that i would almost always *rather* run ghci with -prof turned on than without it. i don't particularly want to create profiles, but i'd really like stack backtraces in ghci. how much effort would be required to allow ghci to (at least) *use* profiled objects, if not build them itself? - hal -- Hal Daume III | hdaume(a)isi.edu "Arrest this man, he talks in maths." | www.isi.edu/~hdaume

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For Your Perusal.
by dominicoshoma＠netscape.net 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

BARRISTER DOMINIC OSHOMA & CO. FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION: RE: REQUEST FOR MUTUALLY BENEFITTING ENDEAVOUR. I humbly crave your indulgence in sending you this mail, if the contents does not meet with your personal and business ethics, I appologise in advance. I am barrister Dominic Oshoma ( attorney at law), I represent Alhaji Ishmail Gwarzo who was the chief security advicer of the then Gen Sani Abacha former military leader of Nigeria. Who died on the 8th of June 1998. With a change in government due to the death of Gen Abacha. My client has come under severe persecution due to the sensitive position he held in the last military regime, presently he is under house arrest restricted only to the confines of his village. The main purpose of this mail is to intimate you of a business proposal that might be of interest to you. My client has informed me of the existence of funds deposited with a security company abroad. This fund came about as part of security votes that were allocated to my client's portfolio during his tenure as chief security advicer to Gen Abacha. What happened was that he had part of the funds transferred to this financial outfit with the aim of purchasing arms and ammunitions for the personal security outfit of Gen Abacha. But before the purchase could take place Gen Abacha died. My client has decided to keep this for himself as all his properties has been confisticated by the present regime. But due to his incarceration he cannot travel out and effect the change of possession to his benefit. I have been mandated by my client to source for a foreign partner that can help him facilitate the change of possession. the deposit certificate and the code needed for the execution of this endeavour are in my possession. my client is also well disposed towards reaching an agreement with you that will be at par with the help required of you. The funds in question is USD23.7M (Twenty-Three Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States dollars Only). Should this proposition be of interest to you, you can reach me through my e-mail address or telephone number so that we can go through the rudiments of this endeavour. I remain most obliged. Dominic Oshoma

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