August 2011 - Haskell-Cafe

ANNOUNCE: Chell: A quiet test runner (low-output alternative to test-framework)
by Greg Weber 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hi John, I am wondering if you have seen the hspec package? [1] It seems to solve all the problems you are with chell, including that it silences Hunit output. We are using it for all the Yesod tests now. Thanks, Greg Weber [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/hspec/0.6.1/doc/html/Test-Hspec…

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.2.1
by Henning Thielemann 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

On 09.08.2011 22:01, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.2.1. > > The 7.2 branch is intended to be more of a "technology preview" than > normal GHC stable branches; in particular, it supports a significantly > improved version of DPH, as well as new features such as compiler > plugins and "safe Haskell". The design of these new features may evolve > as we get more experience with them. See the release notes for more > details of what's new and what's changed. These sound like a lot of exciting news. The release notes also mention a VECTORISE pragma, that is not mentioned in http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/pragmas.html and not in the index. Is it about the planned GHC support for SSE/AltiVec vector units or is it about DPH?

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How to use cabal macros in .hsc files
by Bas van Dijk 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hello, Currently it's not possible to use cabal macros like MIN_VERSION_base(x,y,z) in .hsc files: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/870 Is there a workaround to get the same effect? Regards, Bas

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New releases and BSD3 license
by John Goerzen 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hello, I would like to announce new versions of the following: hslogger convertible HDBC HDBC-odbc HDBC-postgresql HDBC-sqlite3 By popular, insistent, persistent, and patient request <grin>, all have been relicensed under the 3-clause BSD license. I am also working to make that happen with MissingH, but have to receive permission from a few third parties first. Additionally, this will be my last upload of the HDBC* packages. Nicolas Wu has kindly agreed to step in as HDBC maintainer. Nicolas has recently contributed a lot of good things towards HDBC and has more time to maintain it than I do. Thanks, -- John Goerzen

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Additional functions of GMP
by Artyom Kazak 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

GMP has a lot of functions, such as extracting roots, primality test, Legendre symbol, factorial and so on. These can be written in Haskell, of course, but isn't it better to use existing functions? They are also much faster than similar functions from NumericPrelude, I believe. I have heard GHC 7.2.1 now includes module named GHC.Integer.Logarithms, but I can't find its description anywhere. So, my question is: can I use full power of GMP's functions, and if I can — how?

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: yap-0.0 - yet another prelude
by Sebastian Fischer 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

[switched to Cafe] On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Henning Thielemann <lemming(a)henning-thielemann.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Paterson, Ross wrote: > >> Yet another restructuring of the Prelude numeric classes on algebraic >> lines, proposed for a revision of the Haskell Prelude: >> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yap-0.0 > > A nice lightweight design, both in terms of the use of type extensions and > import dependencies, that should people encourage to use it, when they are > afraid of changing to a more radical approach like numeric-prelude. I would > have prefered the name AdditiveGroup to AbelianGroup, since with '+' and '-' > and '0' I associate more than just the laws of an Abelian group. The > multiplicative group of rational numbers is abelian, too. I'm curious: what laws do you have in mind for '+', '-', and '0' that do not hold in the multiplicative group of rational numbers with (+) = (*); (-) = (/); 0 = 1 ? Sebastian

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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 194
by Daniel Santa Cruz 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Welcome to issue 194 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of July 31 to August 6, 2011. [1] http://goo.gl/8hDku You can find a HTML rendition of this newsletter at: http://contemplatecode.blogspot.com/2011/08/haskell-weekly-news-issue-194.h… Announcements Andy Gill has issued a call for papers for the 23rd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functinal Languages (IFL 2011) to be held at the University of Kansan, in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. The symposium is scheduled for October 3-5, 2011. [2] http://goo.gl/hHD2H Anil Madhavapeddy issued a call for participation to the Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP 2011), which will be co-located with the ICFP 2011 in Tokyo, Japan, on September 22-24, 2011. [3] http://goo.gl/BvPpj The GHC team annouced the release of GHC 7.2.1 [4] http://goo.gl/0gTL3 New and Updated Projects * Eddie (Mike Meyer): A tool for shell scripting with haskell. [5] http://goo.gl/tzdbv * HROOT (Ian-Woo Kim): Haskell binding to the ROOT analysis package. [6] http://goo.gl/qJ1Bb * vector-algorithms (Dan Doel): Efficient Algorithms for Vector Arrays. [7] http://goo.gl/YZmxR * Alex (Simon Marlow): Update. A lexical analyser generator for Haskell. [8] http://goo.gl/dDYrl Quotes of the Week * kmc: when computer scientists rebuild the world after the apocalypse, we will have hanging gardens with trees that grow downward * kmc: a wise man once said that the entire world can be described as convex combinations of drugs, math, and cardboard * roconnor: as a rule of thumb, avoid any packages shipped with the Haskell Plaform. * kmc: Try the new GHC IO Scheduler! It's got what plants crave! * kmc: I refuse to believe that any loving god would invent the monomorphism restriction * AlanPerlis: It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. * [kmc] do you have a theory where the stack overflow is coming from? [copumpkin] joel spolsky * @faq is it possible to find things Haskell can't do? [lambdabot] The answer is: Yes! Haskell can do that. * kmc: Haskell isn't really designed by mathematicians. it's designed by people who programmers would consider to be mathematicians and mathematicians would consider to be programmers Top Reddit Stories * "I'm very tempted to want to move to a functional programming language. Haskell or Ocaml or something" -John Carmack Domain: youtube.com, Score: 120, Comments: 62 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/enBuK Original: [10] http://goo.gl/WXfZy * That seems like a challenge! Whatever happened to the hs->js compiler? Domain: xkcd.com, Score: 48, Comments: 12 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/okkWU Original: [12] http://goo.gl/HykNt * The Conditional Choice Operator Domain: zenzike.com, Score: 47, Comments: 15 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/npdIK Original: [14] http://goo.gl/tdb4J * Haskell For Kids! Introduction to My Upcoming Class Domain: cdsmith.wordpress.com, Score: 47, Comments: 31 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/Gnmg9 Original: [16] http://goo.gl/y1pEF * seL4, a formally verified version of the L4 microkernel, was spec-prototyped in Haskell (PDF) Domain: sigops.org, Score: 23, Comments: 8 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/fq0t9 Original: [18] http://goo.gl/mCrEu * Hi guys, I made a Haskell to Clojure translator. Check it out :D Domain: github.com, Score: 17, Comments: 21 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/Fxdwa Original: [20] http://goo.gl/OL86U * Moderator Guidelines : Them's the rules. Domain: self.haskell, Score: 12, Comments: 0 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/UPz94 Original: [22] http://goo.gl/UPz94 * Library of conditional one-liners and combinators? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 11, Comments: 39 On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/dTmX1 Original: [24] http://goo.gl/dTmX1 * Zoom, a thor/rake-like task runner for Haskell (very alpha) Domain: github.com, Score: 10, Comments: 3 On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/KkW9v Original: [26] http://goo.gl/LqYUE * Yesod form overhaul Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 8, Comments: 1 On Reddit: [27] http://goo.gl/biQuv Original: [28] http://goo.gl/lxuYj * ETA on the Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 release? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 8, Comments: 3 On Reddit: [29] http://goo.gl/gydgP Original: [30] http://goo.gl/gydgP Top StackOverflow Questions * Speed comparison C vs python vs erlang vs haskell votes: 50, answers: 8 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/XEZ9Z * Recursion schemes for dummies? votes: 37, answers: 2 Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/nnhGb * Is it possible to place inequality constraints on haskell type variables? votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/VnexA * Haskell: Prefer pattern-matching or member access? votes: 9, answers: 6 Read on SO: [34] http://goo.gl/E225N * Difference between TVar and TMVar votes: 7, answers: 2 Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/lmn1R * Java's Interface and Haskell's type class: differences and similarities? votes: 7, answers: 6 Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/fMGpH * Haskell code accompanying the Paul Hudak 1994 US Navy experiment paper [migrated] votes: 7, answers: 0 Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/fpVO5 About the Haskell Weekly News To help create new editions of this newsletter, please send stories to dstcruz(a)gmail.com. Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://haskell.org/ 2. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18868 3. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18873 4. http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_2_1 5. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18867 6. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/91469 7. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18871 8. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18874 9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28&feature=player_detailpage#t=4193s 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jap3x/im_very_tempted_to_want_to_m… 11. http://www.xkcd.com/934/ 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j9nef/that_seems_like_a_challenge_… 13. http://zenzike.com/posts/2011-08-01-the-conditional-choice-operator 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j6rbd/the_conditional_choice_opera… 15. http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/haskell-for-kids-introduction/ 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j8ac0/haskell_for_kids_introductio… 17. http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/klein-sosp09.pdf 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ja27r/sel4_a_formally_verified_ver… 19. https://github.com/dmead/Clojure-translate 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jarp0/hi_guys_i_made_a_haskell_to_… 21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j8df0/moderator_guidelines_thems_t… 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j8df0/moderator_guidelines_thems_t… 23. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j51yw/library_of_conditional_oneli… 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j51yw/library_of_conditional_oneli… 25. https://github.com/iand675/Zoom 26. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ja6fo/zoom_a_thorrakelike_task_run… 27. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/08/yesod-form-overhaul 28. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j8gta/yesod_form_overhaul/ 29. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jaa8t/eta_on_the_haskell_platform_… 30. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jaa8t/eta_on_the_haskell_platform_… 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964392/speed-comparison-c-vs-python-vs-… 32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6941904/recursion-schemes-for-dummies 33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6939043/is-it-possible-to-place-inequali… 34. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6913130/haskell-prefer-pattern-matching-… 35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6915079/difference-between-tvar-and-tmvar 36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6948166/javas-interface-and-haskells-typ… 37. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6953020/haskell-code-accompanying-the-pa…

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Announce: file-location 0.2.4
by Greg Weber 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Were you excited when Simon Marlow announced he might be able to add stack traces to Haskell? Would you settle for just the first line of the stack trace? It is a little known fact that template haskell exposes the file and line number information. file-location contains common debugging/error/exception functions and template haskell versions that give file location information. > $(err "OH NO!") main:Main main.hs:16:1 OH NO! > debug [1,2,3] DEBUG: [1,2,3] [1,2,3] > $(dbg) [1,2,3] DEBUG main:Main main.hs:1:3 [1,2,3] [1,2,3] ($(thrwIO) AException) `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: AException)) Caught AException "main:Main test/main.hs:25:6" Don't like the exception dependency? Use version 0.2.3 for now until the exceptions are split into a separate package. Just want the debug helpers (like the debug function) but not interested in the template haskell? The library is already split into modules based on dependencies. The near future plan is to separate this into separate packages, including one with the non-TH debug helpers. Also see the github README for more examples: https://github.com/gregwebs/FileLocation.hs I think haskell could use a few more debug helpers. Perhaps some of these could be pushed back into the standard distribution. Thanks, and I am looking forward to your feedback, Greg Weber

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Type level Roman numerals and skew binary random access lists (formatting hopefully corrected)
by Ivan Tomac 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Apologies for the repost. The post is a literate Haskell file and as my first attempt was formatted for 80 character lines, it no longer worked after the lines got mangled. Hopefully this time it'll come out right. --------------------------------------------------------------------- I've recently been playing with Sebastian Fischer's explicit sharing monad library (found at http://sebfisch.github.com/explicit-sharing) and after looking at the code noticed the implementation memoizes values into an IntMap of untyped values that are coerced into the correct type on retrieval, which is a sensible and practical way to implement this. Just for fun I thought I'd have a go at implementing a (very impractical) version without type casting but, disappointingly, I didn't quite get there. I ran out of steam by the time I got around to playing with parameterized monads by which stage the type signatures started looking a bit scary. That and I needed to get back to my projects. This has been sitting on my hard drive for a couple of weeks now and I've finally decided to clean it up and post it, maybe someone else will find it amusing. The post is about HList inspired type level implementation of Okasaki's skew binary random access lists indexed by Roman numerals, using ideas from Ralf Hinze's paper "Functional Pearl: Typed Quote/Antiquote - Or: Compile-time Parsing" and some fun tricks from the MLton wiki: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/publications/Quote.pdf http://mlton.org/Fold http://mlton.org/Fold01N http://mlton.org/VariableArityPolymorphism With that out of the way, we start of by declaring all the different extensions we'll need. > {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-} > {-# LANGUAGE FunctionalDependencies #-} > {-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-} > {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-} > {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} > {-# LANGUAGE TypeSynonymInstances #-} These two are ugly. We need undecidable instances for bunch of things and overlapping instances for the type equality trick borrowed from the HList paper: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/HList/paper.pdf > {-# LANGUAGE OverlappingInstances #-} > {-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-} For GHC 7 we also need to increase the context stack. > {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fcontext-stack=100 #-} Define Boolean values at the type level. > data T = T > data F = F And now Peano numbers. We don't actually use the constructors for anything but if we omitted them we'd have to use another extension, EmptyDataDecls. > data Z = Z > data S n = S n Here we create some types for heterogeneous lists and trees. Note that Pair has an extra type parameter. We provide two different versions of the cons operation. One requires that extra parameter but does not require undecidable instances. Unfortunately we still need undecidable instances later on for indexing. > data Pair i x y = Pair x y deriving Show > data Nil = Nil deriving Show > data Tree l x r = Node l x r deriving Show > data Leaf x = Leaf x deriving Show > > type Pair' x y = Pair () x y > > nil :: Nil > nil = Nil Equality, less than, addition, subtraction and multiplication by 2 type functions for Peano numbers. > type family Equals m n > > type instance Equals Z Z = T > type instance Equals Z (S n) = F > type instance Equals (S n) Z = F > type instance Equals (S m) (S n) = Equals m n > > type family LessThan m n > > type instance LessThan Z Z = F > type instance LessThan Z (S n) = T > type instance LessThan (S n) Z = F > type instance LessThan (S m) (S n) = LessThan m n > > type family Add m n > > type instance Add Z n = n > type instance Add n Z = n > type instance Add (S m) (S n) = S (S (Add m n)) > > type family Sub m n > > type instance Sub n Z = n > type instance Sub (S m) (S n) = Sub m n > > type family Mul2 n > > type instance Mul2 Z = Z > type instance Mul2 (S n) = S (S (Mul2 n)) And finally tree depth and weight/size. > type family Depth t > > type instance Depth (Leaf x ) = S Z > type instance Depth (Tree l x r) = S (Depth l) > > type family Weight t > > type instance Weight (Leaf x ) = S Z > type instance Weight (Tree l x r) = S (Mul2 (Weight l)) For reference, here is normal implementation of random access lists newtype List a = List { unList :: [(Int, Tree a)] } deriving Show data Tree a = Leaf a | Node (Tree a) a (Tree a) deriving Show cons :: a -> List a -> List a cons x (List wts) = List $ case wts of (v, l) : (w, r) : wts' | v == w -> (1 + w + w, Node l x r) : wts' _ -> (1 , Leaf x ) : wts List here is a list of pairs of balanced binary trees and their weights. The cons function has exactly two cases. The second case is trivial, we are mostly interested in the first case. If the weights of the two trees at the front of the list are the same, we combine them into a new tree with the newly inserted element at the top. Now we are ready to implement cons. This first version is simpler but requires undecidable instances. > class Cons' x y z | x y -> z where cons' :: x -> y -> z Here we cover the cases of inserting an element into an empty list, and inserting an element into a list with a single element. These cover two out of four different possibilities when inserting a new element. > instance Cons' x Nil (Pair' (Leaf x) Nil) where cons' = Pair . Leaf > > instance Cons' x (Pair' y Nil) (Pair' (Leaf x) (Pair' y Nil)) where > cons' = Pair . Leaf The remaining two cases occur when we have at least two elements in the list. This is where we need to compare weights of trees. First observation is that we don't need weight of a tree, depth is sufficient. Now we have a problem. We'd like to be able to write something like instance (Depth l ~ u, Depth r ~ v, Equals u v ~ T) => Cons' x (Pair' l (Pair' r y)) (Pair' (Tree l x r) y) where ... instance (Depth l ~ u, Depth r ~ v, Equals u v ~ F) => Cons' x y (Pair' (Leaf x) y) where ... but we get a functional dependency conflict in the second instance as the type variable y might stand for Pair' l (Pair' r y) and the functional dependency already says the result should be Pair' (Tree l x r) y, not Pair' (Leaf x) (Pair' l (Pair' r y)). We need to merge these two instances into one and then branch on the result of the comparison of tree depths. To do this, we introduce another type class to do the branching. > class ConsIf c x y z | c x y -> z where consIf :: c -> x -> y -> z And merge the instances. > instance ( Depth l ~ u > , Depth r ~ v > , Equals u v ~ c > , ConsIf c x (Pair' l (Pair' r y)) z ) => > > Cons' x (Pair' l (Pair' r y)) z where > > cons' = consIf (undefined :: c) > > instance ConsIf F x y (Pair' (Leaf x) y) where consIf _ = Pair . Leaf > > instance (Depth l ~ u, Depth r ~ u) => > > ConsIf T x (Pair' l (Pair' r y)) (Pair' (Tree l x r) y) where > > consIf _ x (Pair l (Pair r y)) = Pair (Node l x r) y We can now test our cons function. > t0' = cons' 'a' > $ cons' (33 :: Int) > $ cons' (4.4 :: Float) > $ cons' (88 :: Integer) > $ cons' ([1 .. 8] :: [Int]) > $ cons' "moose" > $ cons' ((6, 3) :: (Int, Int)) > $ nil And ghci tells us the type is *Main> :t t0' t0' :: Pair' (Tree (Tree (Leaf Float) Int (Leaf Integer)) Char (Tree (Leaf [Char]) [Int] (Leaf (Int, Int)))) Nil Now we get to the second version that doesn't need the undecidable instances extension. In this one we go a step back and attempt to keep track of depth information in the type of the list. When we again end up at the point where we need to compare if two trees at the front of the list are of the same depth, we run into a problem. instance Cons x (Pair i l (Pair i r y)) (Pair (S i) (Tree l x r) y) where ... instance Cons x (Pair i y (Pair j z w)) (Pair (S Z) x (Pair i y (Pair j z w))) where ... This clearly won't work as we again get a functional dependency conflict. The j type variable could be the same as i in which case we have two different rules for what the result of consing x with (Pair i l (Pair i r y)) should be. As we don't want to use undecidable instances, we are stuck. Unless we can find a way to disambiguate the two instances. Instead of keeping track of depth information, we could try to track how many elements we need to complete a new tree. That way instead of counting up, we are counting down towards zero and it becomes easy to differentiate the two instances as only the one where the depths of the two trees are equal will contain a Z. Keeping track of how many elements are missing turns out to be a problem, at least as long as we don't want to use undecidable instances. Fortunately we can replace the number of elements missing with the number of levels the tree at the front needs before its depth matches the tree that follows. > class Cons x y z | x y -> z where cons :: x -> y -> z Inserting an element into an empty list involves adding the element to the front and setting its the depth counter to 1. > instance Cons x Nil (Pair (S Z) (Leaf x) Nil) where cons = Pair . Leaf If we are inserting an element into a list that already has a single tree, we again add the new element to the front, set its counter to 1 and we decrement the counter of the tree that now follows the newly inserted element. > instance Cons x (Pair (S i) y Nil) > (Pair (S Z) (Leaf x) (Pair i y Nil)) where > > cons x (Pair y z) = Pair (Leaf x) (Pair y z) Here we have the case where the list already contains at least two trees but their depths are not equal. Like with the previous instance we insert the new element to the front and decrement the counter of the tree that now follows it. > instance Cons x (Pair (S i) y (Pair (S j) z w)) > (Pair (S Z) (Leaf x) (Pair i y (Pair (S j) z w))) where > > cons x (Pair y z) = Pair (Leaf x) (Pair y z) That means we are left with one more case to handle. The case when the depths of the two trees are the same, or rather when the counter reaches 0. As we merge the two trees and create a new tree, we must also decrement the counter of the tree that follows. What this means is that we really need two instances. One where there are only two trees of the same depth in the list, and one where those two trees are followed by at least one more tree. > instance (Depth l ~ i, Depth r ~ i) => > Cons x (Pair i l (Pair Z r Nil)) > (Pair (S i) (Tree l x r) Nil) where > > cons x (Pair l (Pair r y)) = Pair (Node l x r) y As we merge the trees into a new tree, we reset and increment the depth counter. Note that we are using the first tree's counter. Reason for that is that the counter must represent the tree's depth as the tree at the front was either just inserted and so its counter is 1, or it was created when two smaller trees merged and its counter was set to its depth. Finally we must also decrement the counter of the tree that follows. > instance (Depth l ~ i, Depth r ~ i) => > Cons x (Pair i l (Pair Z r (Pair (S j) y z))) > (Pair (S i) (Tree l x r) (Pair j y z)) where > > cons x (Pair l (Pair r (Pair y z))) = Pair (Node l x r) (Pair y z) Now we can test the new cons function. > t0 = cons 'a' > $ cons (33 :: Int) > $ cons (4.4 :: Float) > $ cons (88 :: Integer) > $ cons ([1 .. 8] :: [Int]) > $ cons "moose" > $ cons ((6, 3) :: (Int, Int)) > $ nil The type is slightly more verbose. *Main> :t t0 t0 :: Pair (S (S (S Z))) (Tree (Tree (Leaf Float) Int (Leaf Integer)) Char (Tree (Leaf [Char]) [Int] (Leaf (Int, Int)))) Nil Here we introduce our wrapper for Roman numerals though we won't get to play with those just yet. > newtype R n = R { unR :: Int } deriving Show We want to get indexing and updates out of the way first. The reference implementation for the indexing function is a bit more complex than the cons function. Each of the cases we need to handle has been marked with a comment so we can see which instance matches which part of the code. index :: List a -> Int -> Maybe a index (List ((w, t) : wts)) i | i < w = index' w i t -- 1 | otherwise = index (List wts) (i - w) -- 2 where index' 1 0 (Leaf x ) = Just x -- 3 index' _ _ (Leaf _ ) = Nothing index' w i (Node l x r) | i == 0 = Just x -- 4 | i <= w' = index' w' (i - 1 ) l -- 5 | otherwise = index' w' (i - 1 - w') r -- 6 where w' = w `div` 2 index _ _ = Nothing We don't need to do anything when the index is out of range - the type system takes care of that for us. > class Index i x y | i y -> x where index :: y -> R i -> x > class IndexIf c i x y | c i y -> x where indexIf :: c -> y -> R i -> x First we handle the easy cases. > instance Index Z x (Leaf x ) where index (Leaf x ) _ = x -- 3 > instance Index Z x (Tree l x r) where index (Node _ x _) _ = x -- 4 Cases 5 and 6 require the use of a second type class so we can branch on the result of the comparison i <= w, though we rewrite it to w < i' + 1 to make use of the LessThan type family and to differentiate instance 6 from instance 4. Instead of halving the weight of the tree we are currently working on, we get the weight of one of its children. > instance ( Weight l ~ w > , LessThan w (S i) ~ c > , IndexIf c i x (Tree l y r) ) => > > Index (S i) x (Tree l y r) where > > index t _ = indexIf (undefined :: c) t (undefined :: R i) -- 5, 6 > > instance Index i x l => IndexIf F i x (Tree l y r) where > indexIf _ (Node l _ _) = index l -- 5 > > instance ( Weight r ~ w > , Sub i w ~ j > , Index j x r ) => IndexIf T i x (Tree l y r) where > > indexIf _ (Node _ _ r) _ = index r (undefined :: R j) -- 6 Cases 1 and 2 are handled in a similar way. > instance ( Weight t ~ w > , LessThan i w ~ c > , IndexIf c i x (Pair j t y) ) => Index i x (Pair j t y) where > > index = indexIf (undefined :: c) -- 1, 2 > > instance Index i x t => IndexIf T i x (Pair j t y) where > indexIf _ (Pair t _) = index t -- 1 > > instance ( Weight t ~ w > , Sub i w ~ j > , Index j x y ) => IndexIf F i x (Pair k t y) where > > indexIf _ (Pair _ y) _ = index y (undefined :: R j) -- 2 Update is similar. update :: Int -> a -> List a -> List a update i x (List ((w, t) : wts)) = List $ if i < w then (w, update' w i t) : wts -- 1 else (w, t) : unList (update (i - w) x (List wts)) -- 2 where update' 1 0 (Leaf _ ) = Leaf x -- 3 update' _ _ (Leaf _ ) = error "update" update' w i (Node l x' r) | i == 0 = Node l x r -- 4 | i <= w' = Node l' x' r -- 5 | otherwise = Node l x' r' -- 6 where w' = w `div` 2 l' = update' w' (i - 1 ) l r' = update' w' (i - 1 - w') r update _ _ _ = error "update" > class Index i x z => Update i x y z | i x y -> z where > update :: y -> R i -> x -> z > > class UpdateIf c i x y z | c i x y -> z where > updateIf :: c -> y -> R i -> x -> z > > instance Update Z x (Leaf y) (Leaf x) where > update _ _ x = Leaf x -- 3 > > instance Update Z x (Tree l y r) (Tree l x r) where > update (Node l _ r) _ x = Node l x r -- 4 > > instance ( Weight l ~ w > , LessThan w (S i) ~ c > , Index (S i) x t > , UpdateIf c i x (Tree l y r) t) => > > Update (S i) x (Tree l y r) t where > > update t _ = updateIf (undefined :: c) t (undefined :: R i) -- 5, 6 > > instance Update i x l l' => > UpdateIf F i x (Tree l y r) (Tree l' y r) where > > updateIf _ (Node l y r) i x = Node (update l i x) y r -- 5 > > instance ( Weight r ~ w > , Sub i w ~ j > , Update j x r r' ) => > > UpdateIf T i x (Tree l y r) (Tree l y r') where > > updateIf _ (Node l y r) _ x = -- 6 > Node l y (update r (undefined :: R j) x) > > instance ( Weight t ~ w > , LessThan i w ~ c > , Index i x p > , UpdateIf c i x (Pair j t y) p ) => > > Update i x (Pair j t y) p where > > update = updateIf (undefined :: c) -- 1, 2 > > instance Update i x t t' => > UpdateIf T i x (Pair j t y) (Pair j t' y) where > > updateIf _ (Pair t y) i x = Pair (update t i x) y -- 1 > > instance ( Weight t ~ w > , Sub i w ~ j > , Update j x y z ) => > > UpdateIf F i x (Pair k t y) (Pair k t z) where > > updateIf _ (Pair t y) _ x = -- 2 > Pair t (update y (undefined :: R j) x) Maybe we could combine Update and Index type classes into a single class? But we won't attempt that here. Now that we have indexing and updates, we need values we can use to index the list. Typing Z, S Z, S (S Z) and so on is too tedious and not very readable. We could use templates to predefine a whole bunch of type level numbers. That's kind of ugly though. And we can do it without using any extensions, in plain Haskell 98. We start off by making I a type synonym for S. Then we define types II to X, XX to C in steps of 10, CC to M in steps of 100 and finally we define MM and MMM. I don't know how Roman numerals are supposed to work above 3999 so that's the largest number we will be able to encode. Probably for the best as the type system doesn't seem too happy about having to deal with types of this sort. > type I n = S n > > type II n = I (I n) > type III n = I (II n) > type IV n = I (III n) > type V n = I (IV n) > type VI n = I (V n) > type VII n = I (VI n) > type VIII n = I (VII n) > type IX n = I (VIII n) > type X n = I (IX n) > > type XX n = X (X n) > type XXX n = X (XX n) > type XL n = X (XXX n) > type L n = X (XL n) > type LX n = X (L n) > type LXX n = X (LX n) > type LXXX n = X (LXX n) > type XC n = X (LXXX n) > type C n = X (XC n) > > type CC n = C (C n) > type CCC n = C (CC n) > type CD n = C (CCC n) > type D n = C (CD n) > type DC n = C (D n) > type DCC n = C (DC n) > type DCCC n = C (DCC n) > type CM n = C (DCCC n) > type M n = C (CM n) > > type MM n = M (M n) > type MMM n = M (MM n) Now for the fun part. We'd like to be able to construct only valid Roman numerals and that the type signatures match the values. We start of by defining the return and lift functions as described in Ralf Hinze's paper. We don't go all the way to creating a monad as these two functions are the only thing we need. > ret a f = f a > lift f = ret . f Now before we continue, we need a way to ensure that only valid numbers are constructed. We can group numbers in the range I to X into one group, let's call it ones, X to C into group tens, C to M into group hundreds and M, MM and MMM are in group thousands. A valid number can have at most 1 digit from each group. Digits also have to be ordered from largest to smallest, left to right. To do that, we could try and reuse the LessThen type family from before and add constraints so that a digit from the tens group can only be appended to a number less than ten. And a digit from the hundreds group can only be applied to a number less than a hundred. This approach works but it makes the GHC's type system choke and evaluating types of expressions takes minutes. We could also create a class for each of the groups and a set of combinators that can only be applied to a group of a lower rank. This works better. But we can go a step further than that - we don't actually need any type classes. All we need is one more phantom type for the rank of the number. So we introduce a second type that resembles R, only has one extra type variable. > newtype R' n s = R' { unR' :: Int } deriving Show Here we make use of ret and lift to create polyvariadic functions for constructing Roman numerals. rn starts the construction and nr finalizes it. > rn :: ((R' n s -> R n) -> r) -> r > rn f = ret (R . unR') f > > nr :: (R' Z (IV Z) -> r) -> r > nr f = f (R' 0) Trying them in ghci we get *Main> rn nr R {unR = 0} *Main> :t rn nr rn nr :: R Z We have a zero. Notice in the type signature for nr, rank of zero is 4. Now we need to generate the digits. We can use a single function to generate all of them. > mkR n = lift (\f -> f . R' . (+ n) . unR') And we encode the constraints in the type. Digits from the ones group can only be applied to a number of rank 4. There is only one number of rank 4 and that is zero. Applying a digit from the ones group to a zero gives us a number of rank 3. Digits from the tens group can be applied to numbers of ranks 3 or 4 and return a number of rank 2. And so on. > type RF n m s t k r = (R' n s -> k) -> ((R' m t -> k) -> r) -> r > > i :: RF (I n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > ii :: RF (II n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > iii :: RF (III n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > iv :: RF (IV n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > v :: RF (V n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > vi :: RF (VI n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > vii :: RF (VII n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > viii :: RF (VIII n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > ix :: RF (IX n) n (III Z) (IV s) k r > > x :: RF (X n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > xx :: RF (XX n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > xxx :: RF (XXX n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > xl :: RF (XL n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > l :: RF (L n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > lx :: RF (LX n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > lxx :: RF (LXX n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > lxxx :: RF (LXXX n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > xc :: RF (XC n) n (II Z) (III s) k r > > c :: RF (C n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > cc :: RF (CC n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > ccc :: RF (CCC n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > cd :: RF (CD n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > d :: RF (D n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > dc :: RF (DC n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > dcc :: RF (DCC n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > dccc :: RF (DCCC n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > cm :: RF (CM n) n (I Z) (II s) k r > > m :: RF (M n) n Z (I s) k r > mm :: RF (MM n) n Z (I s) k r > mmm :: RF (MMM n) n Z (I s) k r > > i = mkR 1 > ii = mkR 2 > iii = mkR 3 > iv = mkR 4 > v = mkR 5 > vi = mkR 6 > vii = mkR 7 > viii = mkR 8 > ix = mkR 9 > > x = mkR 10 > xx = mkR 20 > xxx = mkR 30 > xl = mkR 40 > l = mkR 50 > lx = mkR 60 > lxx = mkR 70 > lxxx = mkR 80 > xc = mkR 90 > > c = mkR 100 > cc = mkR 200 > ccc = mkR 300 > cd = mkR 400 > d = mkR 500 > dc = mkR 600 > dcc = mkR 700 > dccc = mkR 800 > cm = mkR 900 > > m = mkR 1000 > mm = mkR 2000 > mmm = mkR 3000 We can now try to construct a number such as 2011. > r2011 = rn mm x i nr *Main> r2011 R {unR = 2011} *Main> :t r2011 r2011 :: R (MM (X (I Z))) The type reflects the value we entered. Attempting to construct an invalid number gives us an error *Main> rn v vi nr <interactive>:1:0: Couldn't match expected type `Z' against inferred type `S s' Probable cause: `rn' is applied to too many arguments In the expression: rn v vi nr In the definition of `it': it = rn v vi nr I'll finish off this post with a generic map function. Here we use the type equality trick from the HList paper. > class GMap t p q | t p -> q where gmap :: t -> p -> q > class GMapIf c t p q | c t p -> q where gmapIf :: c -> t -> p -> q > > instance GMap (a -> b) Nil Nil where gmap _ = id > > instance ( TypeEq a x c > , GMapIf c (a -> b) (Leaf x) (Leaf y) ) => > > GMap (a -> b) (Leaf x) (Leaf y) where > > gmap = gmapIf (undefined :: c) > > instance ( TypeEq a x c > , GMapIf c (a -> b) (Tree l x r) (Tree l' y r') ) => > > GMap (a -> b) (Tree l x r) (Tree l' y r') where > > gmap = gmapIf (undefined :: c) > > instance ( GMap (a -> b) x y > , GMap (a -> b) p q ) => > > GMap (a -> b) (Pair i x p) (Pair i y q) where > > gmap f (Pair x p) = Pair (gmap f x) (gmap f p) > > instance GMapIf F (a -> b) (Leaf x) (Leaf x) where gmapIf _ _ = id > > instance GMapIf T (a -> b) (Leaf a) (Leaf b) where > gmapIf _ f (Leaf a) = Leaf (f a) > > instance ( GMap (a -> b) l l' > , GMap (a -> b) r r' ) => > > GMapIf F (a -> b) (Tree l x r) (Tree l' x r') where > > gmapIf _ f (Node l x r) = Node (gmap f l) x (gmap f r) > > instance ( GMap (a -> b) l l' > , GMap (a -> b) r r' ) => > > GMapIf T (a -> b) (Tree l a r) (Tree l' b r') where > > gmapIf _ f (Node l a r) = Node (gmap f l) (f a) (gmap f r) > > type family Cast a > type family Cast' t a > type family Cast'' t a > > type instance Cast a = Cast' () a > type instance Cast' t a = Cast'' t a > type instance Cast'' () a = a > > class TypeEq x y c | x y -> c > > instance Cast c ~ F => TypeEq x y c > > instance TypeEq Char Char T > instance TypeEq Int Int T > instance TypeEq Float Float T > instance TypeEq a a T => TypeEq [a] [a] T And a few tests to see if it all works. > t1 = gmap (length :: String -> Int) t0 > t2 = gmap (length :: [Int] -> Int) t1 > t3 = gmap ((+ 1000) :: Int -> Int) t2 > > t4 = cons (t0 `index` rn iv nr) t3 > > t5 = update t4 (rn iv nr) "asdf" > > t1' = gmap (length :: String -> Int) t0' > t2' = gmap (length :: [Int] -> Int) t1' > t3' = gmap ((+ 1000) :: Int -> Int) t2' > > t4' = cons' (t0' `index` rn iv nr) t3' > > t5' = update t4' (rn iv nr) "asdf" As a bonus the implementation of type-level Roman numerals in Standard ML. SML/NJ has a fit trying to load the code. It seems to cope with it if constructors for values above 100 are commented out. And it gives really nice type signatures. MLton has no problems compiling the code, but fully expands all type signatures. (**********************************************************************) signature ROMAN = sig type z type 'n i type 'n ii = 'n i i type 'n iii = 'n i ii type 'n iv = 'n i iii type 'n v = 'n i iv type 'n vi = 'n i v type 'n vii = 'n i vi type 'n viii = 'n i vii type 'n ix = 'n i viii type 'n x = 'n i ix type 'n xx = 'n x x type 'n xxx = 'n x xx type 'n xl = 'n x xxx type 'n l = 'n x xl type 'n lx = 'n x l type 'n lxx = 'n x lx type 'n lxxx = 'n x lxx type 'n xc = 'n x lxxx type 'n c = 'n x xc type 'n cc = 'n c c type 'n ccc = 'n c cc type 'n cd = 'n c ccc type 'n d = 'n c cd type 'n dc = 'n c d type 'n dcc = 'n c dc type 'n dccc = 'n c dcc type 'n cm = 'n c dccc type 'n m = 'n c cm type 'n mm = 'n m m type 'n mmm = 'n m mm type 'n r type ('n, 's) r' val toInt : 'n r -> int val <| : ((('n, 's) r' -> 'n r) -> 'r) -> 'r val |> : ((z, z iv) r' -> 'r) -> 'r type ('n, 'm, 's, 't, 'k, 'r) rf = (('n, 's) r' -> 'k) -> ((('m, 't) r' -> 'k) -> 'r) -> 'r val i : ('n i , 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val ii : ('n ii , 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val iii : ('n iii , 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val iv : ('n iv , 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val v : ('n v , 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val vi : ('n vi , 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val vii : ('n vii , 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val viii : ('n viii, 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val ix : ('n ix , 'n, z iii, 's iv , 'k, 'r) rf val x : ('n x , 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val xx : ('n xx , 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val xxx : ('n xxx , 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val xl : ('n xl , 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val l : ('n l , 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val lx : ('n lx , 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val lxx : ('n lxx , 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val lxxx : ('n lxxx, 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val xc : ('n xc , 'n, z ii , 's iii, 'k, 'r) rf val c : ('n c , 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val cc : ('n cc , 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val ccc : ('n ccc , 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val cd : ('n cd , 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val d : ('n d , 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val dc : ('n dc , 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val dcc : ('n dcc , 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val dccc : ('n dccc, 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val cm : ('n cm , 'n, z i , 's ii , 'k, 'r) rf val m : ('n m , 'n, z , 's i , 'k, 'r) rf val mm : ('n mm , 'n, z , 's i , 'k, 'r) rf val mmm : ('n mmm , 'n, z , 's i , 'k, 'r) rf end structure Roman :> ROMAN = struct datatype z = Z datatype 'n i = I of 'n type 'n ii = 'n i i type 'n iii = 'n i ii type 'n iv = 'n i iii type 'n v = 'n i iv type 'n vi = 'n i v type 'n vii = 'n i vi type 'n viii = 'n i vii type 'n ix = 'n i viii type 'n x = 'n i ix type 'n xx = 'n x x type 'n xxx = 'n x xx type 'n xl = 'n x xxx type 'n l = 'n x xl type 'n lx = 'n x l type 'n lxx = 'n x lx type 'n lxxx = 'n x lxx type 'n xc = 'n x lxxx type 'n c = 'n x xc type 'n cc = 'n c c type 'n ccc = 'n c cc type 'n cd = 'n c ccc type 'n d = 'n c cd type 'n dc = 'n c d type 'n dcc = 'n c dc type 'n dccc = 'n c dcc type 'n cm = 'n c dccc type 'n m = 'n c cm type 'n mm = 'n m m type 'n mmm = 'n m mm type 'n r = int datatype ('n, 's) r' = R of int type ('n, 'm, 's, 't, 'k, 'r) rf = (('n, 's) r' -> 'k) -> ((('m, 't) r' -> 'k) -> 'r) -> 'r fun toInt n = n local fun unR (R n) = n fun ret a f = f a fun lift f = ret o f fun mkR n k = lift (fn g => g o R o (fn x => x + n) o unR) k in fun <| f = ret unR f fun |> f = f (R 0) fun i k = mkR 1 k fun ii k = mkR 2 k fun iii k = mkR 3 k fun iv k = mkR 4 k fun v k = mkR 5 k fun vi k = mkR 6 k fun vii k = mkR 7 k fun viii k = mkR 8 k fun ix k = mkR 9 k fun x k = mkR 10 k fun xx k = mkR 20 k fun xxx k = mkR 30 k fun xl k = mkR 40 k fun l k = mkR 50 k fun lx k = mkR 60 k fun lxx k = mkR 70 k fun lxxx k = mkR 80 k fun xc k = mkR 90 k fun c k = mkR 100 k fun cc k = mkR 200 k fun ccc k = mkR 300 k fun cd k = mkR 400 k fun d k = mkR 500 k fun dc k = mkR 600 k fun dcc k = mkR 700 k fun dccc k = mkR 800 k fun cm k = mkR 900 k fun m k = mkR 1000 k fun mm k = mkR 2000 k fun mmm k = mkR 3000 k end end

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alex 3.0 broken with Data.ByteString.Lazy - w2c conversion missing (fix attached)
by Eugene Kirpichov 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi Simon, I found a bug in alex-3.0 and I'm attaching a fixed source file - templates/wrappers.hs (modified against alex-3.0 from cabal unpack). Explanation: I was installing bytestring-lexing 0.2.1 and it failed to install with alex 3.0, which was released on Aug 4. It succeeded, however, with the most recent earlier alex 2.3.5. Turns out that the wrapper for lazy bytestrings (strict are ok) had alexGetByte not doing w2c conversion: alexGetByte (_, cs) | ByteString.null cs = Nothing | otherwise = Just (ByteString.head cs, (ByteString.head cs, ByteString.tail cs)) It should say ByteString.w2c $ ByteString.head cs here. With this and an additional import of Data.ByteString.Internal (w2c), the generated code compiles. To reproduce, cabal unpack bytestring-lexing and try installing it. Installation will fail, then manually alex the .x files in Data/ByteString/Lex{,/Lazy} and try ghci'ing to them, doing the modification I did and ghci'ing again. -- Eugene Kirpichov Principal Engineer, Mirantis Inc. http://www.mirantis.com/ Editor, http://fprog.ru/

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