Hi,
I don't see any mention here of the dimensional library (
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dimensional), or its type-family variant
--- in order to be a viable proposal you should describe how you would
improve on the approach taken there.
G
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Nils Schweinsberg
Hi Haskell-Cafe & GHC-users!
I'm looking to apply for the GSoC and since I've worked on GHC before I'd like to continue to do so. My proposal would be something that tempted me (as a physics student) for a while: Units for Haskell/GHC.
This project has been suggested for a long time on the GHC wiki, and there is already a lot of work done for other languages like ML, F# etc[1]. I have tried to implement e.g. the unification algorithm from the "Types for Units-of-Measure in F#" talk[2] for an abstract syntax tree[3] and it was pretty much straight forward. As I see it, the project would consist of:
1.) Find appropriate rules/algorithms for unit analysis. Most (if not all?) of this should be covered in those papers/talks on [1].
2.) Applying the rules to the Haskell syntax tree used in GHC.
I have approximately 3 years of experience with Haskell, I worked for the database research group[4] at the University of Tübingen (Germany) on the Database Supported Haskell[5] library. I've done most of the coding for the monad comprehension[6] extension, which has been added to the latest GHC release version. I'm already quite familiar with the GHC internals of the compiler/typechecker, and even though I'd have to look up how exactly type interference etc. works in GHC (as I've only *used* it, but never tried to understand/modify it) I'm confident that the work on GHC itself should be doable in the given timeframe.
So my questions would be:
Do you think this is a appropriate GSoC project? What should I include in the application/project proposal? Anything else? Opinions, suggestions?
I realize that I'm kind of late and probably should have written this email a long time ago. But there are still 2 days left for the student application and hopefully I'll get some good feedback by then.
- Nils
[1]: http://research.microsoft.com/**en-us/um/people/akenn/units/** index.htmlhttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/akenn/units/index.html [2]: http://research.microsoft.com/**en-us/um/people/akenn/units/** MLWorkshop2008.pdfhttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/akenn/units/MLWorkshop2008.pdf [3]: https://github.com/mcmaniac/**units/blob/master/src/**Unification.hshttps://github.com/mcmaniac/units/blob/master/src/Unification.hs [4]: http://db.inf.uni-tuebingen.**de/teamhttp://db.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/team [5]: http://hackage.haskell.org/**package/DSHhttp://hackage.haskell.org/package/DSH [6]: http://db.inf.uni-tuebingen.**de/files/giorgidze/**haskell2011.pdfhttp://db.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/files/giorgidze/haskell2011.pdf
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