June 2009 - Haskell-Cafe

using phantom types to validate html
by Mathijs Kwik 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Hi all, Please have a look at http://moonpatio.com/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=2575#a2575 I wanted to use the typesystem to mandate businesslogic (in this case w3c validation rules). Thanks to some helpful people in #haskell I learned a bit about phantom types. Please let me know if I implemented them correctly. Also this little experiment raises some questions: The code becomes very verbose if there are more elements added or more rules to check. Since repetitive code can be a source of error, and hellish to maintain, I would like to know if there's some way to get this generated, or maybe there's some meta-programming stuff I don't know about. Another thing I can't figure out yet is how to do more advanced validation rules like "an html element cannot have 2 head sections", or (made up) "a span element isn't allowed to be a child(any level deep) of a p element". I think this would ask for an exponentially growing number of strange types and classes. Am I right? Just to be clear: this is just some practice to use the typesystem. I'm well aware that just using runtime validation checks will be a lot easier and clearer in most cases. Thanks, Mathijs

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xmobar plugin to show connectivity
by Deniz Dogan 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Hi I'd like an xmobar plugin which in one way or another displays whether or not I'm connected to some network, i.e. if my network interface has an IP address. Has something liket his been done already? If not, what would be the best way to do this? -- Deniz Dogan

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Question on rank-N polymorphism
by Vladimir Reshetnikov 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Hi Zsolt, fs :: (((a, a) -> a) -> t) -> (t, t) fs g = (g fst, g snd) examples = (fs fmap, fs liftA, fs liftM, fs id, fs ($(1,"2")), fs ((,)id), fs (:[]), fs repeat) No instance for (Num [Char]) arising from the literal `1' at M.hs:6:54 Possible fix: add an instance declaration for (Num [Char]) In the expression: 1 In the second argument of `($)', namely `(1, "2")' In the first argument of `fs', namely `($ (1, "2"))' Anyways, this signature is not what intended. I want it to work for all tuples, regardless of their element types. Thanks Vladimir On 6/7/09, Zsolt Dollenstein <zsol.zsol(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Vladimir > Reshetnikov<v.reshetnikov(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Zsolt, >> >> It does not compiles with GHC without type annotations. > > It does with mine: The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version > 6.10.2 > > Anyway, try this: fs :: (((a, a) -> a) -> t) -> (t, t) > >> >> Thanks, >> Vladimir >> >> On 6/7/09, Zsolt Dollenstein <zsol.zsol(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Vladimir, >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Vladimir >>> Reshetnikov<v.reshetnikov(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have the following code: >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> fs g = (g fst, g snd) >>>> examples = (fs fmap, fs liftA, fs liftM, fs id, fs ($(1,"2")), fs >>>> ((,)id), fs (:[]), fs repeat) >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> The idea is that fs accepts a polymorphic function as its argument. >>>> What type signature can I specify for f in order to compile this code? >>> >>> Have you tried putting the above into ghci for example, then asking for >>> ":t >>> fs"? >>> Or am I misunderstanding your point? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Zsolt >>> >>>> If it is not possible in Haskell, is there another language with >>>> static typing which allows this? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Vladimir >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>>> Haskell-Cafe(a)haskell.org >>>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >>>> >>> >> > >

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Still having problems building a very simple "Executable" ....
by Vasili I. Galchin 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Hello, I picked an exceedingly case to build an "Executable": Executable QNameTest Hs-source-dirs: Swish/ Main-Is: HaskellUtils/QNameTest.hs Other-Modules: HaskellUtils.QName Here are the results of a "cabal build -v": Creating dist/build/QNameTest (and its parents) Creating dist/build/QNameTest/QNameTest-tmp (and its parents) /usr/local/bin/ghc -o dist/build/QNameTest/QNameTest --make -hide-all-packages -i -idist/build/QNameTest/QNameTest-tmp -iSwish/ -idist/build/autogen -Idist/build/QNameTest/QNameTest-tmp -odir dist/build/QNameTest/QNameTest-tmp -hidir dist/build/QNameTest/QNameTest-tmp -stubdir dist/build/QNameTest/QNameTest-tmp -package HUnit-1.2.0.0 -package array-0.1.0.0 -package base-3.0.1.0 -package binary-0.4.2 -package bytestring-0.9.1.0 -package containers-0.1.0.1 -package mtl-1.1.0.1 -package old-time-1.0.0.0 -package parallel-1.0.0.0 -package parsec-2.1.0.0 -package random-1.0.0.0 -O Swish/HaskellUtils/QNameTest.hs Swish/HaskellUtils/QNameTest.hs:36:7: Could not find module `Swish.HaskellUtils.QName': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. ??? Thanks, Vasili

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Generic polyvariadic printf in Haskell98
by oleg＠okmij.org 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Evan Klitzke wrote: > I'm writing code with hslogger, and I'm finding myself frequently > writing things like this: > > infoM $ printf "%s saw %s with %s" (show x) (show y) (show z) Indeed writing these `show' is tedious. Fortunately, we can get rid of them, still remaining in Haskell98. The following file defines the polyvariadic generic printf: http://okmij.org/ftp/typed-formatting/GenPrintF.hs It is like polyvariadic show with the printf formatting string. It handles values of any type for which there is a Show instance. Two instances of the class SPrintF are all we ever need. Here are the tests: t1 = unR $ printf "Hi there" -- "Hi there" t2 = unR $ printf "Hi %s!" "there" -- "Hi there!" t3 = unR $ printf "The value of %s is %s" "x" 3 -- "The value of x is 3" t4 = unR $ printf "The value of %s is %s" "x" [5] -- "The value of x is [5]" The appearance of unR is only because of Haskell98 (with flexible instances, we can get rid of that). On the other hand, your code post-processes the result of formatting with infoM, so the newtype unwrapping should not matter at all. Still, the code is a bit unsatisfactory because of the appearances of "error" in pr_aux functions. The errors like passing too many or too few arguments to printf (as demanded by the format specification) are caught only at run-time. We can certainly do better.

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Announce: haskeem 0.7.0 uploaded to hackage
by Uwe Hollerbach 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Hi, all, a little while ago I uploaded haskeem 0.7.0 to hackage: this is my small scheme interpreter. I had been busy with other important stuff for a while, and hadn't worked on it for a while; but I've now updated it to build ok with ghc 6.10.3 + haskeline, plus I added a simple macro system; that had been one of the two big items left on my list for it. It's not yet full R6RS Scheme hygienic macros, but I'll get there, too... I had kind of a "functional programming moment" while doing this macro system... I had been thinking and reading about it for, oh, a couple of weeks now, and today I sat down to start that, with the hope of maybe finishing it in a week or two. Nope! All in all, it took about 45 minutes, with the really important changes to the code spanning, oh, call it a generous three lines of code. There were changes in 50ish other lines, but those were all pretty trivial, just adding another data type. Such a let-down! :-) :-) :-) There is one small regression in all of this, namely that with haskeline I have lost the ability to interrupt the interpreter and land back at the "lisp>" prompt. I can interrupt it all right, but I end up at the shell prompt... not so good! I know all that stuff can be set up to interrupt a little less thoroughly than that, I just haven't got around to it yet... soon, I hope. Uwe

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ANNOUNCE: numtype 1.0 -- Type-level (low cardinality) integers
by Bjorn Buckwalter 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

Dear all, Since its inception my dimensional library has been built around a unary type-level representation of integers (NumTypes) defined in the Numeric.NumType module. This module has proven itself useful outside the context of dimensional and after dragging my feet for a long time I've finally gotten around packaging it up in its own library: numtype[1]. The Numeric.NumType module is completely self-contained (only imports Prelude) and is heavily commented in a narrative manner inspired by Oleg Kiselyov's expositions. I believe it provides a good case study for type-level programming with multi-parameter type classes and functional dependencies. Addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication of NumTypes is supported. NumTypes have no value-level representation but can be converted to any Num instance with the 'toNum' function. The numtype library has two significant short-comings: * Minimal haddocks -- as with my dimensional library the literate Haskell source code is the documentation. The flip-side is that the code is very well-commented. * Due to the unary implementation the practical size of the NumTypes is severely limited, making them unsuitable for large-cardinality applications. If you will be working with integers beyond (-20, 20) this package probably isn't for you. (If the second bullet is a show-stopper Edward Kmett's type-int[2] library may be a better choice. Peter Gavin's tfp[3] library also provides type-level integers but uses type families instead of MPTCs and fundeps. I cannot vouch for either of these libraries as I haven't used them.) Numtype version 1.0 can be downloaded from Hackage or the dimensional project page[4]. I've also updated dimensional to version 0.8 with the Numeric.NumType module removed and Julian 'year' and 'century' units added. Enjoy! Thanks, Bjorn Buckwalter [1]: http://code.google.com/p/dimensional/wiki/numtype [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/type-int [3]: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/tfp [4]: http://dimensional.googlecode.com

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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 120 - June 6, 2009
by Brent Yorgey 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20090606 Issue 120 - June 06, 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to issue 120 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the [1]Haskell community. Sorry for the massive HWN, I missed last week so you're getting two for the price of one! Registration for [2]Hac phi is now open, be sure to register soon (register by June 15 to get a special hotel rate). Announcements Reminder: Haskell Implementers' Workshop CFT deadline in 2 weeks. Simon Marlow [3]reminded everyone to consider submitting a talk proposal for the Haskell Implementers' Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ICFP in Edinburgh, Scotland on 5 September. The deadline for submissions is a couple of weeks away (15 June); all that is needed is an abstract. storable-record. Henning Thielemann [4]announced [5]storable-record, a small package for simplified declaration of Storable instances for records. It may be used as an alternative to the [6]c2hs preprocessor. It was made possible by advanced applicative technology, a cutting edge LCM monoid and an incredible constructor power tower. Haskell Communities and Activities Report (16th ed., May 2009). Janis Voigtlaender [7]announced the availability of the [8]16th Haskell Communities and Activities Report. hledger 0.5 released. Simon Michael [9]announced the release of version 0.5 of [10]hledger, a (mostly) text-mode double-entry accounting tool that generates precise activity and balance reports from a plain text journal file. New repository and trac for haskell-src-exts. Niklas Broberg [11]announced some new infrastructure for the haskell-src-exts package, set up in preparation for his GSoC project. with the HSP packages, it's now old enough to be allowed to [12]live on its own. There is also a [13]bug tracker. Please help by reporting any bugs you come across, or by requesting new and cool features. bsd-sysctl 1.0.3. Maxime Henrion [14]announced the release of [15]bsd-sysctl 1.0.3, a package that provides a System.BSD.Sysctl module allowing access to the C sysctl(3) API. It should fully work on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Mac OS X platforms. multirec-binary. Sebastiaan Visser [16]announced the release of [17]multirec-binary, which allows generic derivation of Data.Binary instances using the [18]MultiRec library. notice for package authors. Duncan Coutts [19]announced that Hackage uploads will soon require an upper bound on the version of the base package and reject packages that omit it. This will hopefully result in less breakage the next time a new version of the base package is released. (Pre-) Announce: Data.GDS 0.1.0. Uwe Hollerbach [20](pre-) announced Data.GDS, a small module to write and (eventually) read GDS files, a classic format of the semiconductor industry. The module can currently generate GDS files with a fairly low-level interface; planned future versions (which will be uploaded to Hackage) will have a higher-level interface and be able to parse GDS files as well. new version of uu-parsinglib. S. Doaitse Swierstra [21]announced that a new version of the [22]uu-parsinglib library has been uploaded to hackage. It is now based on Control.Applicative where possible. Be warned that functions like some and many will be redefined in the future. Hac phi: Haskell hackathon in Philadelphia, July 24-26. Brent Yorgey [23]announced Hac phi, a Haskell hackathon/get-together to be held July 24-26 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The hackathon will officially kick off at 2:30 Friday afternoon, and go until 5pm on Sunday (with breaks for sleep, of course). Everyone is welcome---you do not have to be a Haskell guru to attend! Helping hack on someone else's project could be a great way to increase your Haskell-fu. If you plan on coming, please [24]register. There is a block of hotel rooms available at a special rate only until June 15, so register early! More details can be found on the [25]Hac phi wiki. Job for someone: make a VM image for GHC development. Simon Marlow [26]suggested a useful project for someone looking for something to do: create a VM image of a Linux system with a complete GHC development environment set up and ready to go. My attempt at Haskell USB. Mauricio [27]announced some [28]Haskell bindings to libusb, and gave another plug for his [29]bindings-common package, which makes it easier to generate Haskell bindings to low-level libraries. second alpha release of OSX haskell platform installer. Gregory Collins [30]announced a [31]second candidate release for the OSX Haskell Platform installer. Please try it out! Release Schedule for 2009.2.0.2. Don Stewart [32]announced the [33]release schedule for the next minor release of the 2009.2.0 branch of the Haskell Platform. The freeze for package changes will be Wednesday 1 July, and the release is scheduled for Monday 13th July. hscamwire, for IIDC1394 cameras. Frederick Ross [34]announced the release of [35]hscamwire 0.1, which provides a nice Haskellized layer over Camwire, a library to connect to IIDC1394 cameras (most scientific and industrial Firewire cameras) on Linux. Safe and generic printf with C-like format string. oleg [36]announced some code to implement a type-safe polyvariadic version of printf, which is also integrated with Show so that any showable type can be printed. A library for serial ports. Frederick Ross [37]announced the release of [38]serial-0.1, a library for line-oriented interaction with serial ports on POSIX compatible systems. HaL4: Haskell-Meeting in Germany, 12th June 2009. Janis Voigtlaender [39]reminded everyone of [40]Hal4, a German-language Haskell gathering to be held in Halle/Saale on June 12. There are already close to 50 registered participants, so expect a very lively meeting! Late registration still possible. wp-archivebot 0.1 - archive Wikipedia's external links in WebCite. Gwern Branwen [41]announced [42]wp-archivebot, a relatively simple little script which follows all the links in a RSS feed, combs the destination for http:// links, and submits them to [43]WebCite. memscript-0.0.0.2. Ki Yung Ahn [44]announced [45]memscript, a command line utility for memorizing scriptures or any other text. HSH 2.0.0. John Goerzen [46]announced the release of [47]version 2.0.0 of HSH, the Haskell shell scripting library. This version features a complete rewrite of the core using System.Process, a drastic reduction in code size and complexity, cross-platform support, and a simpler and more flexible API. atom-0.0.5. Tom Hawkins [48]announced version 0.5 of the [49]atom library, a DSL for embedded hard realtime applications. This version includes a few bug fixes and doc improvements. heap-1.0.0. Stephan Friedrichs [50]announced a rewrite of the heap package, [51]heap-1.0.0. It is not 100% compatible with version 0.6.0, but provides major improvements, including a better mechanism for instantiating min-, max-, min-prio- and max-prio-heaps, and faster {from,to}{Asc,Desc}List conversions. The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.1. Don Stewart [52]announced the second release (2009.2.0.1) of the [53]Haskell Platform, a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone. The specification, along with installers (including Windows and Unix installers for a full Haskell environment) are available. Anglohaskell 2009. Philippa Cowderoy [54]announced [55]Anglohaskell 2009, to be held at MSR Cambridge on the 7th and 8th of August. code reviewers wanted for hashed-storage (darcs). Eric Kow [56]solicited anyone with a few spare hours this summer willing to help the Darcs project as a code reviewer for the standalone hashed-storage module, which will be used by Darcs in the future. No Darcs experience is needed! Google Summer of Code Progress updates from participants in the 2008 [57]Google Summer of Code. Haddock improvements. Isaac Dupree has begun looking at the Haddock code, and has a [58]question about which of two options he should pursue. EclipseFP. Thomas Ten Cate has posted an [59]explanation of how the Scion client/server model works. Space profiling. Gergely Patai has [60]uploaded a preliminary version of the [61]hp2any core library which handles heap profiles both during and after execution. He has also [62]posted some pretty graphs generated by a simple utility built on top of the core library. haskell-src-exts. Niklas Broberg has begun work by making a [63]list of all language extensions and the ways in which they affect lexing and parsing, since haskell-src-exts will need to be parameterized over these extensions. Fast Darcs. Petr Rockai has posted two detailed [64]progress [65]reports already, with many changes to both the standalone [66]hashed-storage library and a [67]fork of darcs which uses it. Discussion Error message reform (was: Strange type error with associated type synonyms). Max Rabkin began an interesting [68]discussion about error messages. Do you have an intuitive sense of which is the 'expected' and which the 'inferred' type? time library dependencies. Ashley Yakeley [69]asked what dependencies are acceptable for the time library, leading to a discussion of what dependencies are acceptable for base packages. Bool as type class to serve EDSLs. Sebastiaan Visser started a [70]discussion on the possibility of a type class for representing Boolean values, much like the current Num class for numeric values. Jobs 10 jobs in declarative programming. Oege de Moor [71]announced the availability of positions with Semmle and LogicBlox for ten declarative programming consultants, who will work with clients to write custom queries in Datalog, and to create user interfaces in a declarative framework. Semmle and LogicBlox are creating a platform for declarative programming in Datalog, a pure logic programming language. Semmle is based in Oxford, headed by Oege de Moor; LogicBlox is based in Atlanta, headed by Molham Aref. See the announcement for more information and how to apply. Blog noise [72]Haskell news from the [73]blogosphere. Blog posts from people new to the Haskell community are marked with >>>, be sure to welcome them! * David Amos: [74]Welcome to Haskell for Maths. David's Haskell library for mathematics exploration is under development again! * Joachim Breitner: [75]Third place in AI programming contest. * Bryan O'Sullivan: [76]Dealing with encoding errors in Data.Text. * Remco Niemeijer: [77]Programming Praxis - Ternary Search Tries. * beelsebob: [78]Collecting Non-Memory Resources. * Luke Palmer: [79]It is never safe to cheat. Ceiling cat is watching you. * Alex McLean: [80]More hackery. More cool livecoding with Haskell. * Thomas ten Cate: [81]Client/server communication. * Gergely Patai: [82]The first graphs. * Alson Kemp: [83]Turbinado V0.6.5. * Don Stewart (dons): [84]The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.1. The first minor update release of the Haskell Platform is here. * Alson Kemp: [85]Turbinado V0.6.5. * Michael Snoyman: [86]Functors and Monads (containers). * Well-Typed.Com: [87]Come talk at the Haskell Implementers' Workshop!. * GSoC Fast Darcs: [88]soc progress 2. * Shin-Cheng Mu: [89]On a Basic Property for the Longest Prefix Problem. * >>> Ben Hutchison: [90]OO/Imperative programmers: 'Study Functional Programming or Be Ignorant'. * Michael Snoyman: [91]Run a MonadCGI as a CGI application!. * Michael Snoyman: [92]Wordify: RESTful Haskell web apps. * Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva: [93]xmlGetWidget without castTo*. * >>> slawekk: [94]Probability monad. * Brandon Simmons: [95]Huffman Coding. * Niklas Broberg: [96]Parametrising haskell-src-exts on extensions. A list of language extensions and how they affect parsing. * Manuel M T Chakravarty: [97]Instant Generics now has a website!. * GHC / OpenSPARC Project: [98]The CAS experiment. * Brent Yorgey: [99]Hac phi!. Registration is now open. * Jeff Heard: [100]Buster 2.2 - Application Orchestration redux. Example code showing off Buster. * Bryan O'Sullivan: [101]I put a pidgit in your widget so you can fidget while you calculate pi. GHC and the language shootout. * Niklas Broberg: [102]Haskell Platform, I'm in love. * Bjorn Buckwalter: [103]Benchmarking Amazon EC2 with GHC. * Bjorn Buckwalter: [104]Blogging with Pandoc, literate Haskell, and a bug. * >>> Chris Moos: [105]Haskell AIM Client - a cool proof of concept. * Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva: [106]Generating code with Haskell-src and TH. Quotes of the Week * pumpkin: we should throw it [CReal] in with Foreign.C.Types to confuse people * MyCatVerbs: The *real* best way to optimize a program is to tell dons that it's been added to the Shootout. * SimonFrankau: The points-free approach, while elegant, can make code unreadable, especially if it is written by quantitative analysts moonlighting as functional programmers. * ValarQ: l33t_h4x0r: could you help me port GHC to the AVR architecture? <-- l33t_h4x0r has left #haskell * gwern: drat. what *do* all you people talk about? only one bacon and one zombie quote * quicksilver: well if you can get proggit to help with your interview, then perhaps you can get proggit to help with the job when you get it. So it's not cheating, it's just an indication of one of your skill sets. * shapr: I haven't tried F#, everytime I get the urge to do something fun with .NET I have SharePoint flashbacks and buy more hardware instead. * gwern: bleh. haskell is messing me up. 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Why are these record accesses ambiguous
by John Ky 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

Hi Haskell Cafe, In the following code, I get an error saying Ambiguous occurrence `x'. Why can't Haskell work out which x to call based on the type of getA? Thanks -John #!/usr/bin/env runhaskell > {-# LANGUAGE DisambiguateRecordFields #-} > import A > import B > > main = do > let xx = getA > putStrLn $ show x xx ---------------------- module A where data TypeA = TypeA { a :: Int , x :: Int } getA = TypeA { a = 1, x = 2 } ------------------------- module B where data TypeB = TypeB { b :: Int , x :: Int } getB = TypeB { b = 1, x = 3 } -------------------------- ./test.lhs:8:21: Ambiguous occurrence `x' It could refer to either `A.x', imported from A at ./test.lhs:3:2-9 (defined at A.hs:5:5) or `B.x', imported from B at ./test.lhs:4:2-9 (defined at B.hs:5:5)

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Pike's Newsqueak talk
by Tim Newsham 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

I just watched http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=810232012617965344 It's a great talk that is suprisingly relevant to Haskell programming (although at first blush it looks a bit unrelated). (It refs a lot of older work that actually led me to Haskell in the first place by way of McIlroy's haskell power-series paper). Anyway, I thought it would be of general interest. A lot of the progrms he discusses are a lot more elegant in pure Haskell code (ie. prime number sieve, power series), but his language also supports an interesting imperative primitive that lets you pick the first available value from a set of channels which isn't available in pure Haskell expressions. Has anyone implemented a primitive like this for Haskell? Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/

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