--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell Weekly News http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN Issue 38 - June 25, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to issue 38 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. Each week, new editions are posted to [1]the Haskell mailing list as well as to [2]the Haskell Sequence and [3]Planet Haskell. [4]RSS is also available, and headlines appear on [5]haskell.org. This edition mechanised, automated and published thanks to Text.PrettyPrint, hopefully making it easier to keep the weekly news schedule in future. 1. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell 2. http://sequence.complete.org/ 3. http://planet.haskell.org/ 4. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed 5. http://haskell.org/ Announcements * The GHC Hackathon . Simon Peyton-Jones [6]announced that GHC HQ are going to run a hackathon, in Portland, just before ICFP this September (14-15th). It'll be held at Galois's offices, in Beaverton. Thanks go to [7]Galois for hosting the meeting. [8]Here are the details. If you are interested in finding out a bit about how GHC works inside, then you should find the hackathon fun. It will be informal and interactive. If you think you might come, please take a look at the above page, and register. 6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13838 7. http://galois.com/ 8. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Hackathon * Bytecode API library . Robert Dockins [9]announced a release of an alpha version of a library for reading and writing the YHC bytecode file format. It reads and writes the entire bytecode set, version 1.9 (the one used by recent YHC builds). [10]Check it out. 9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.yhc/134 10. http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~rdocki01/yhc-bytecode.html Haskell' This section covers the [11]Haskell' standardisation process. * [12]Regarding Class Aliases 11. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime 12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1558/focus=1558 Discussion * Extensible records using associated types . Barney Hilken [13]suggested an interesting encoding of polymorphic extensible records using associated types. 13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13828/focus=13828 * Graphing community activity . Don Stewart [14]posted started graphing the commit activity of [15]various Haskell community projects over time. 14. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13830 15. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/images/commits/community/ Contributing to HWN To help create new editions of this newsletter, please see the [16]contributing information. Send stories to dons at cse.unsw.edu.au . The darcs repository is available at darcs get http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hwn 16. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN