May 2009 - Haskell-Cafe

ANN: Gtk2HS 0.10.1 released
by Peter Gavin 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi everyone, I'd like to announce the release of Gtk2HS 0.10.1! This release includes mostly bug fixes and other small improvements. Most notably, GHC 6.10.1 is now supported. The source tarball may be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49207&package_id=42440 A Windows installer will be provided soon. Thanks to all the contributors!

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displaying conetents of a list
by applebiz89 10 May '09

10 May '09

I want to write a function to output the entire contents of a list. not sure of how to do so...This is my list i want to output type Title = String type Director = String type Year = Int type Fan = String data Film = Film Title Director Year [Fan] deriving Show -- List of films testDatabase :: [Film] testDatabase = [(Film "Casino Royale" "Martin Campbell" 2006 ["Garry", "Dave", "Zoe"]) ] ------- I know this isnt right but this is what I have so far listFilms :: [Film] -> [Film] listFilms (film@(Film title director year fans) : films) = putStrLn . show film I know to use show and putStrLn but I just don't know how to put them into the function correctly thank you. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/displaying-conetents-of-a-list-tp23470633p23470633.ht… Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Hoogle: converting binary .hoo into text?
by Peter Verswyvelen 10 May '09

10 May '09

I would like to use the Hoogle text format in C#. Hoogle on Hackage comes with a bunch of binary *.hoo files. Can these be converted to text/xml? If not, is the binary format documented? I know I can build hoo files using "cabal haddock --hoogle". But doing this on the BASE package (which I need) from Hackage fails (I'm on Windows, using MSYS): configure: creating ./config.status config.status: error: cannot find input file: include/HsBaseConfig.h.in Does anyone have an easy solution? Maybe I just need to switch to Linux to get this working? :-)

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ok, someone check me on this (type unification from the (>>=)/fmap thread)
by Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH 10 May '09

10 May '09

I can't tell where I'm making the mistake here. In the thread where (>>=) and fmap were being confused, the error cited a type (Maybe a) which was supposed to be in typeclass Num. As far as I can tell, if the typechecker gets to the point where Num and Maybe are both present and (m) is Maybe, it has to (1) be focused on the (m b) part of (a -> m b), and therefore (2) must have already unified (a) and (b). But that means (m b) must unify with (Num a => a), which is unified with (b), resulting in the attempt to unify (Num a => a) with (Maybe a); since we get the error about (Maybe a) not being a Num, it must not have gotten there. But that means it can't have related Num to (m a) with (m) bound to Maybe, which is why I assumed it had unified (m) with ((->) r) instead. Can the typechecker really get the Num to the other end of (a -> m b) without also getting the (a) there? Or is it checking for the Num constraint before it has fully evaluated the type of (m b)? I thought typeclass constraints happened later than basic type unification. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery(a)kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery(a)ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

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Heads up: Conflicting versions of network-2.2.1
by Johan Tibell 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hi, The version of network-2.2.1 that shipped with GHC 6.10 differs from the one on Hackage [1]. The version that was released with GHC was never uploaded to Hackage and was never tagged in the darcs repository. When making a new release of network I forgot to check the version number on the version of network that shipped with GHC. My appologies. If you want the API additions that are present in network-2.2.1 on Hackage use network-2.2.1.1 instead to make sure that e.g. cabal-install doesn't use the version of network that comes with GHC. In the future there won't be any releases directly from the darcs repo. All releases will be made on Hackage to later be picked up by the Haskell Platform. Cheers, Johan 1. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/network-2.2.1

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Just 3 >>= (1+)?
by michael rice 10 May '09

10 May '09

Why doesn't this work? Michael ================ data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a instance Monad Maybe where return = Just fail = Nothing Nothing >>= f = Nothing (Just x) >>= f = f x instance MonadPlus Maybe where mzero = Nothing Nothing `mplus` x = x x `mplus` _ = x ================ [michael@localhost ~]$ ghci GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> Just 3 >>= (1+) <interactive>:1:0: No instance for (Num (Maybe b)) arising from a use of `it' at <interactive>:1:0-14 Possible fix: add an instance declaration for (Num (Maybe b)) In the first argument of `print', namely `it' In a stmt of a 'do' expression: print it Prelude>

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Haskell IO problem
by applebiz89 10 May '09

10 May '09

I havent done much IO at all in haskell, only within the function itself. However I want to get the input from the interface for the function and havent done this before. // Say I have this as my data type and list of films data Film = Film String String Int [String] -- List of films testDatabase :: [Film] testDatabase = [(Film "Casino Royale" "Martin Campbell" 2006 ["Garry", "Dave", "Zoe"]) ] // with functions such as: becomeFan :: String -> String -> [Film] -> [Film] becomeFan _ _ [] = [] becomeFan filmName fanName ((Film title director year fans):xs) | filmName == title = (Film title director year fanName:fans) : xs | otherwise = (Film title director year fans) : becomeFan filmName fanName xs filmsInGivenYear :: Int -> [Film] -> [String] filmsInGivenYear filmYear films = [ title | (Film title director year fans) <- films, year == filmYear] // I want to ask the user what function they want to use, I have this so far main :: IO() do putStr "Hi there! what is your name: " fanName = getLine do putStr "1 = Insert film, 2 = Become a Fan, 3 = The number of fans of a film, 4 = Film released in a year: " input = getLine read input :: Int (if input == 1 then main x = insertFilm [] else if input == 2 then main x = becomeFan [] else if input == 3 then main x = numberOfFans []) // I thought using the if statement would work, but now I cant think how to gather the needed input for the function they have chosen? thanks apple -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Haskell-IO-problem-tp23404351p23404351.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Is Haskell a Good Choice for Web Applications? (ANN: Vocabulink)
by jekor＠jekor.com 10 May '09

10 May '09

I decided to find out for myself. You can find the results at http://jekor.com/article/is-haskell-a-good-choice-for-web-applications Included is the source code for the web application powering http://www.vocabulink.com/ The source is roughly 2,000 lines of Haskell, along with some SQL and JavaScript. It's written in literate style and includes a 75-page PDF. It demonstrates and explains how to: * use FastCGI to communicate with a web server (nginx in this case) * move data to and from a PostgreSQL database (HDBC) * authenticate users with cookies * interact with users via asynchronous JavaScript and JSON (AJAJ) * collect data with HTML forms (formlets) * communicate with users via email * cache with memcached * implement a custom forums system (with threaded comments) I make no claims that the code is elegant or idiomatic. It is however real code that's running "in the wild". And I hope it's useful to anyone else considering doing web development in Haskell. I welcome and encourage your feedback!

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal parse problems
by Vasili I. Galchin 09 May '09

09 May '09

sorrily nope, Brian ... Vasili On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:06 PM, <brian(a)lorf.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, 06.05.09 at 18:05, Vasili I. Galchin wrote: > > Exposed-modules: Swish.HaskellRDF.BuiltInDatatypes, > > ... > > Swish.HaskellRDF.GraphMatch, > > Think it probably doesn't like that trailing comma. >

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haskell - main function
by applebiz89 09 May '09

09 May '09

Could anyone look at this segment of code; it's not compiling wondering if anyone could correct me as to why. Thanks Code: -- Film as datatype type Title = String type Director = String type Year = Int type Fan = String data Film = Film Title Director Year [Fan] -- List of films testDatabase :: [Film] testDatabase = [(Film "Casino Royale" "Martin Campbell" 2006 ["Garry", "Dave", "Zoe"]) ] becomeFan :: Title -> fanName -> [Film] -> [Film] becomeFan _ _ [] = [] becomeFan Title fanName ((Film Title Director Year fan):xs) | filmName == title = (Film Title Director Year fanName:fan) : xs | otherwise = (Film Title Director Year fan) : becomeFan Title fanName xs main :: [Film] -> IO() main db = do putStr "Hi there! what is your name: " fanName = getLine do putStr "1 = Insert film, 2 = Become a Fan, 3 = The number of fans of a film, 4 = Film released in a year, 5 = Given fan, 6 = Stop : " input = getLine x = read input :: Int if x == 1 then do putStr "Enter film title: " filmTitle <- getLine putStr "Enter director name: " filmDirector <- getLine putStr "Enter release year: " filmYear <- getLine main insertFilm [Title Director Year [Film]] else if x == 2 then do putStr "Enter film title: " filmTitle <- getLine putStr "Enter fan name: " fanName <- getLine main becomeFan [Title fanName] else if x == 3 then do putStr "Enter film title: " filmTitle <- getLine main numberOfFans [Title] else if x == 4 then do putStr "Enter film release year: " filmYear <- getLine main filmsInGivenYear [Year [Film]] else if x == 5 then do putStr "Enter the fan name: " fanName <- getLine main givenUser [fanName [Film]] else if x = 6 then return () -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/haskell---main-function-tp23459841p23459841.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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