April 2015 - Haskell-Cafe

ANNOUNCE: Parsed 0.0.1
by Mike Izbicki 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

I'm pleased to announce the first release of the Parsed library (pronounced par-séd). Parsed is a reimplementation of Haskell's excellent Parsec library in the Unix shell. In particular, the Unix pipe operator | corresponds exactly to Haskell's Applicative bind *>. Here's a quick example to get a feel for the syntax. The following bash one liner creates a parser for matching balanced parenthesis: ``` parens() { choice "$1" "match '(' | parens \"$1\" | match ')'"; } ``` For more detailed examples and implementation notes, please see the Parsed paper accepted at SIGBOVIK2015: https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed/raw/master/sigbovik2015/paper.pdf You can download Parsed from its github page at: https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed

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Specify OS version
by Sergey Bushnyak 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi Cafe! I have program written in Haskell and Swift that runs on Mac. This program uses some features that was introduced in last version of OS X “Yosemite” 10.10, but some of my users use previous version "Maverics " 10.9. Is there some technique that allows me to extend my cabal file and specify which *version* of os is currently in use and don't load some of modules? AFAIK, Cabal's `conditional` doesn't provide such mechanism, but something like ``` if os(osx) && ver(=10.10) if os(osx) && ver(<=10.9) ``` will be nice. Maybe there is other approach to this problem?I don't want to use `CPP` extension to handle this within code. Thanks -- Best regards, Sergey Bushnyak

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Speed up ghc -O2
by Kees Bleijenberg 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

My program reads a xls file and creates a haskell program that does exactly the same as what the xls does. Every cell in the xls is a function and contains 2 lines: the type declaration and 1 line the implementation. The type of a cell is XlsCell. data XlsCell = Reader ExternalCells XlsCellRes data XlsCellRes = XlsCellString String | XlsCellBool Bool | ..... type ExternalCells = Map String XlsCellRes -- search (or set) a value of a cell by its name. The externalCells are for the cells you can change at runtime. The generated program was first 30000 lines. When I compiled it with ghc 7.8.3. -O0 the program worked, but was terribly slow. With -O2 I got: out of memory. With a few trics the generated code is now split up in 2 files 5000 and 10000 lines. I've upgraded to ghc 7.8.4. If I do ghc -O2 the program takes more then 4 hours to compile. The -O2 compilation is essential. The resulting program is much (more then 10x) faster then without -O2. What can I do (changes in the generated code, changes to speed up ghc?) to make ghc faster with -O2? I tried ghc-make, but it doesn't make a big difference. Kees

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Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts
by Graham Hutton 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 30th April 2015 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year, but there is currently no common location in which to promote and advertise the resulting work. The Journal of Functional Programming would like to change that! As a service to the community, JFP recently launched a new feature, in the form of a regular publication of abstracts from PhD dissertations that were completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall, and do not require any transfer for copyright, merely a license from the author. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. A dissertation is eligible if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. JFP will not have these abstracts reviewed. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/ supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton <graham.hutton(a)nottingham.ac.uk> by 30th April 2015. o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 1000 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting in the abstract, but do get in touch if this causes significant problems) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. JFP reserves the right to decline to publish abstracts that are not deemed appropriate. ============================================================ PHD ABSTRACT EDITOR: Graham Hutton School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom ============================================================ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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