February 2018 - Haskell-Cafe

How do you turn off GHC flags?
by Christopher Done 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

If I run :set -fdeferred-type-errors in GHCi, how do I turn it off again? I tried -f-deferred-type-errors and -fno-deferred-type-errors and neither are recognized. Cheers

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Proposal for GHC: global HasFoo classes
by KAction＠gnu.org 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Hello! I have idea for GHC to make working with lenses even more convenient. # Rationale Let us recall, that "type Lens' a b = (a -> f a) -> (b -> f b)" is about accessing some value of type `a' somewhere deep in value of type `b'. Let us consider that we have following datatypes: -- module 1 {-# LANGUAGE DisambiguateRecordFields #-} data Foo = Foo { _a :: Int, _b :: Double } data Bar = Bar { _a :: Double, _c :: Char } Since we want to be able to use 'a' as both lens into 'Foo' and into 'Bar', we would use 'makeFields' function from 'lens' package, and get something like this generated (implementation is omited): -- module 1 class HasA w p | w -> p where a :: Lens' w p class HasB w p | w -> p where b :: Lens' w p class HasC w p | w -> p where c :: Lens' w p instance HasA Foo Int instance HasA Bar Double instance HasB Foo Double instance HasC Bar Char It is all great and convenient, but what if we have another module with -- module 2 data Quiz = Quiz { _a :: Bool } In same spirit, 'makeFields' will create -- module 2 class HasA w p | w -> p where a :: Lens' w p instance HasA Quiz Bool Now, you import unqualified both modules, and you have two versions of 'a' function, one per module. From GHC's point of view, class HasA in module 1 and module 2 are different, while we, humans, understand, that they are not. To mitigate this problem, common convention is to collect all types, used in package, and their lenses in signle module. But there is no solution {as far as I know} for lenses from different packages. # Proposal Let us introduce a new extension -XGlobalLensClasses (better name is welcome). When this extension is activated in module, you can write instances like instance HasFoo Foo Int where foo = -- apporiate lens with following implicit class definition: class HasFoo w p | w -> p where foo :: Lens' w p After that, module can export 'foo'. All implicit HasFoo classes, whose instances are defined in different modules are considered the same. It eliminates problem, described in rationale if both modules in consideration used proposed extension. It should be noted, that this extension would not disrupt any existing code, although in distant future we could have it by default. # Alternative idea The proposal of making global only one particular class namespace 'Has<Foo>' with very specific signature is not generic enough. Maybe we can add option to mark class definition as global instead, merging all global classes with same signature together? Sounds more complicated, but this solution will not upset those people who disagree with Lens-based HasFoo classes. Opinions?

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Midlands Graduate School 2018 - registration now open!
by Graham Hutton 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Replace data constructors via meta programming
by Olaf Klinke 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Vilem, I suggest to use free monads. They reduce boilerplate a little. First, separate the variable form the rest of the syntax: data Prop v = Not v | And v v | Or v v | If v v | Iff v v -- maybe GHC can derive this instance for you, given the appropriate language extension flag. instance Functor Prop where fmap f (Not p) = Not (f p) fmap f (And p q) = And (f p) (f q) fmap f (Or p q) = Or (f p) (f q) fmap f (If p q) = If (f p) (f q) fmap f (Iff p q) = Iff (f p) (f q) Then use Control.Monad.Free from the package 'free'. It also has a template Haskell part. The function you want is called 'iter' there, and applying a context of type var -> Bool is simply fmap. Note that a Map from var to Bool does not always yield a total reduction, since your formula might contain variables that are not in the Map. data Free f var = Pure var | Free (f (Free f var)) instance Functor f => Monad (Free f) where return = Pure Pure a >>= f = f a Free m >>= f = Free (fmap ((=<<) f) m) type Proposition var = Free Prop var type Predicate = Free Prop Bool -- F-algebras for functor f class Functor f => FAlg f a where alg :: f a -> a instance FAlg Prop Bool where alg (Not b) = not b alg (And p q) = p && q alg (Or p q) = p || q alg (If p q) = not p || q alg (Iff p q) = p == q eval = iter alg :: Predicate -> Bool map_and_eval ctx = iter alg . fmap ctx If feasible, remove If and Iff from the Prop type and make them binary functions on type Proposition var instead. That reduces the boilerplate further. -- Olaf

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GHC/GHCi
by Vladyslav Nikolayevich 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

Hi, GHCi https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-8.2.1/docs/GHCi.html doc says that: `Interacting with the interpreter, whether it is running on an external process or in the current process.` but where I can get some examples haw to “connect” to the already running ghci, do some staff and reload ghci session them? -- С уважением, Владислав Ищенко

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mistaken post
by Doug McIlroy 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

Apologies for my off-topic post about shell programming yesterday. (I replied to the wrong message in my inbox.) Doug

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[JOBS] Formal methods positions at Intel
by Levent Erkok 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

We have two open positions in formal methods/verification at our team at Intel: http://jobs.intel.com/ShowJob/Id/1504155/Sr.-Formal-Verification-Engineer/ While the work centers around formal-verification of Intel's microprocessor offerings, people with background in functional programming and generally interested in correctness proofs of both software and hardware would be well suited. SAT/SMT solving, BDDs, Model-checking are most commonly occurring terms you hear on a daily basis. Feel free to contact me in private for questions, or send me your CV. Cheers, -Levent.

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Profiling code using tagsoup
by Fabien R 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Hello, I have troubles profiling my EPG grabber. The profile log is: -------------------------- Thu Feb 8 17:14 2018 Time and Allocation Profiling Report (Final) tv_grab_fr +RTS -pa -hc -i1 -RTS --days 1 --output-file /res.xml total time = 103.35 secs (103353 ticks @ 1000 us, 1 processor) total alloc = 7,602,130,080 bytes (excludes profiling overheads) COST CENTRE MODULE SRC %time %alloc ticks bytes GC GC <built-in> 50.5 0.0 52166 57504 parse Text.HTML.TagSoup.Specification src/Text/HTML/TagSoup/Specification.hs:35:1-19 15.4 15.2 15879 1159030944 output Text.HTML.TagSoup.Implementation src/Text/HTML/TagSoup/Implementation.hs:(80,1)-(142,44) 13.5 22.9 14000 1743780696 expand Text.HTML.TagSoup.Implementation src/Text/HTML/TagSoup/Implementation.hs:(49,1)-(60,30) 11.6 39.0 11976 2962740856 -------------------------- Further in the log, I see: TvGrabPrograms.mySccGetProgramDetails TvGrabPrograms src/TvGrabPrograms.hs:69:1-17 5000 19 0.6 2.2 42.3 79.2 640 165979512 ~/= Text.HTML.TagSoup src/Text/HTML/TagSoup.hs:103:1-25 5543 135987 0.1 0.0 28.5 44.4 54 3263688 ~== Text.HTML.TagSoup src/Text/HTML/TagSoup.hs:(87,1)-(99,21) 5544 135987 0.5 0.3 28.4 44.3 485 19485856 parseTags Text.HTML.TagSoup.Parser src/Text/HTML/TagSoup/Parser.hs:16:1-41 5545 135987 0.0 0.0 27.9 44.1 44 0 parseTagsOptions Text.HTML.TagSoup.Parser src/Text/HTML/TagSoup/Parser.hs:25:1-39 5546 135987 0.1 0.1 27.9 44.1 138 7615272 parseTagsOptions Text.HTML.TagSoup.Manual src/Text/HTML/TagSoup/Manual.hs:12:1-54 5547 135987 0.4 0.3 27.7 44.0 422 22845912 output Text.HTML.TagSoup.Implementation src/Text/HTML/TagSoup/Implementation.hs:(80,1)-(142,44) 5548 135987 8.0 13.1 8.0 13.2 8221 994675336 -------------------------- But I see no function (~/=) calling (~==) calling parseTags in my code. The only line using parseTags is: let !tl = parseTags $ L8.unpack $ responseBody httpRsp Did I miss something ? Thanks in advance, Fabien

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-Cafe Digest, Vol 174, Issue 9
by Doug McIlroy 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Thanks for the quidk reply. Please do send info about local arrangements. All I know is the dates. I read your shell assignment (but haven't yet looked at your program). It's a very good model of real life with Unix, particularly in regard to data laundry: automate what you can, but check the results. And that often feeds back into insight about further automation. I was once doing just such a job (in this case, trying to devise pronunciation rules for a text-to-speech system) when I got tired of using an editor to scan a dictionary that was too big to fit. I asked Ken Thompson if he could extract the editor's regular-expression recognizer into a free standing program. It turned out he had already done so for his own private use. Thus did grep make its appearance among Unix tools. Incidentally, you suggest using sed to get rid of carriage returns, disguised as ^M--very confusing because as a regular expression ^M means an M at the beginning of a line. The simplest solution I know is tr -d '\r'. For another revealing shell exercise you may like http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/sieve.pdf. The shell stuff begins on page 4. Then comes truly lovely code in Haskell. Doug

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] avoiding parens in postfix applicative notation
by Johannes Waldmann 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

for reference, previous discussion at https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2017-February/027685.html On whether to put <&> in Data.Functor. Will this happen? - J.W.

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