Haskell Weekly News: October 11, 2005 Greetings, and thanks for reading the 11th issue of HWN, a weekly newsletter for the Haskell community. Each Tuesday, new editions will be posted (as text) to [1]the Haskell mailing list and (as HTML) to [2]The Haskell Sequence. 1. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell 2. http://sequence.complete.org/ New Releases * PAM 1.0. Henning Guenther [3]announced version 1.0 of his bindings to the PAM authentication libary. 3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12250 * cpphs 1.0. Malcolm Wallace [4]announced the release of cpphs version 1.0. 4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12233 * MissingH 0.12.0. John Goerzen [5]announced MissingH 0.12.0, which added various enhancements to its binary I/O utilities. 5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12257 Calls for Participation * Haskell Communities & Activities Report. Andres Loeh [6]posted a call for contributions to the periodic report. Anyone that's part of a Haskell team, has published Haskell code, written Haskell-related papers or books, etc. is encouraged to submit a short entry about their activities. 6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12261 Discussion Papers from the 2005 Haskell Workship. Dimitry Golubovsky [7]noted that papers from the workshop on the ACM site required a login to read. Simon Marlow posted a free link to the papers he co-authored. 7. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8580 IRC for spreading information. John Goerzen [8]wrote about some concerns regarding using IRC for spreading information to the Haskell community, such as happened recently. It received some discussion on #haskell. 8. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8573 Reducing memory usage. Young Hyun began an interesting [9]thread about tracking down mysterious cases of high RAM usage. Several people made suggestions for things to try, including things that would be useful to others. 9. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8637 Memoization. Gerd M [10]wondered why Data.Map was slower than he expected in his program. 10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8610 Monad Syntax. Tom Hawkins [11]asked about the syntax "| m -> s" in class declarations. Several people explained that this has to do with functional dependencies, an extension to Haskell 98. 11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8601 Alternatives to hs-plugins. John Goerzen [12]posted a scenario in which hs-plugins would be useful, but where concerns about its portability may render it inappropriate. Nils Anders Danielsson replied with a link to his code that can call Hugs to dynamically evaluate Haskell snippets. 12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8592 Haskell Toolchain Converting fptools to Darcs. Simon Marlow [13]wrote about his ideas for converting fptools from CVS to Darcs. Several people made suggestions and asked questions. 13. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user About Haskell Weekly News Want to continue reading HWN? Please help us create new editions of this newsletter. Please see the [14]contributing information, or send stories to hwn -at- complete -dot- org. There is also a Darcs repository available. 14. http://sequence.complete.org/hwn-contrib