Dear Henk-Jan, You can view the preprint yourself with the following commands: $ true > dont.txt $ less dont.txt You'll then start seeing it everywhere you look, and I'm not sure that wider distribution is possible. -- Jack "Henk-Jan van Tuyl" writes:

Thanks,

The `don't` function is a big step forward in computering; it will surely prevent many bugs from occurring, with little effort to software developers.

Is it published in a scientific magazine yet?

Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl

On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:38:08 +0200, Jack Kelly wrote:

...

Hello all,

I have taken over the maintainership of acme-dont, and am pleased to announce a new acme-dont release on Hackage[1].

acme-dont provides a `don't` function, which does not execute its argument. For example, the following code will not print anything:

import Acme.Dont (don't)

quiet :: IO () quiet = don't $ putStrLn "You'll never see this on stdout"

New in this release:

* `don't` has been generalised from `Monad` to `Applicative`. If you have been waiting since GHC 8.0.1's release in 2016[2] to use `don't` with `-XApplicativeDo`, wait no longer.

* A test suite, to ensure that `don't` does not do anything. Previous versions could have been defined as `don't = void` for all we knew.

Also, the acme-dont community now has a new home on sourcehut. On there, you can find the following invaluable resources:

* A source repository[3], to track further developement and new ways of not doing things, with a commit history reconstructed from the release tarballs uploaded to Hackage.

* A mailing list[4] for the acme-dont community to discuss the best ways of not doing things.

* A bug tracker[5] to handle reports, in case someone observes acme-dont doing something.

* Continuous integration[6], to ensure that acme-dont continues to not do things across multiple versions of GHC.

I would like to thank Gracjan Polak for uploading the initial releases of `acme-dont`, and for maintaining the package these past eleven years. I do not intend to betray the responsibility he has assigned me in handing over this critical package.

Best,

-- Jack

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/acme-dont-1.2 [2]: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_8_0_1 [3]: https://git.sr.ht/~jack/acme-dont [4]: https://lists.sr.ht/~jack/acme-dont-discuss [5]: https://todo.sr.ht/~jack/acme-dont [6]: https://builds.sr.ht/~jack/acme-dont _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.