--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell Weekly News http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN Issue 46 - October 24, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to issue 46 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. Announcements * MissingH 0.16.0. John Goerzen [1]announced that the latest version of MissingH is now available. MissingH is a suite of 'missing' library functions. New features include: render numbers as binary units, a progress tracker, turn QuickCheck tests into HUnit tests, and GHC 6.6 support. 1. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14400 * SMP parallel Pugs on GHC. Audrey Tang [2]announced that parallel support, on top of GHC's new SMP runtime system, has been added to Pugs, the standard bearer [3]Perl6 implementation. 2. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14402/focus=14402 3. http://pugs.blogs.com/pugs/2006/10/smp_paralleliza.html * YAHT is now a part of the wikibook. Eric Kow [4]announced that the famous 'Yet Another Haskell Tutorial' has been imported into [5]the Haskell wikibook. Let the great Haskell Remix begin! 4. http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2006/10/yaht-badly-imported.html 5. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell Haskell' This section covers the [6]Haskell' standardisation process. * [7]Pattern guards * [8]Standard syntax for preconditions, postconditions, and invariants * [9]Indentation of If-Then-Else * [10]Module imports anywhere 6. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime 7. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1750/focus=1750 8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1773/focus=1773 9. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1763/focus=1763 10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1764/focus=1764 Discussion * Ruby puzzles. Jim Burton [11]mentioned that he was working on the [12]Ruby quiz puzzles in Haskell -- an interesting exercise. 11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/16056/focus=16056 12. http://www.rubyquiz.com/ * DeepSeq and parallel strategies. Chad Scherrer [13]started a bit of a discussion about the connection between the deepSeq function, and Control.Parallel.Strategies.rnf 13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/16047/focus=16047 * Type level functions. Oleg Kiselyov [14]described how to use type level programming to create a type of constrained lists. 14. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/15978 * Extending the core libraries. Josef Svenningsson [15]started a largish thread on adding a concat.intersperse function to the base library, leading to an interesting discussion on whether the time has come for an formal process for extending core libraries. 15. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/5280/focus=5280 * data Void. Conor McBride [16]proposed adding the type with no inhabitants other than _|_ to the core libraries. 16. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/5321/focus=5321 Blog noise [17]Haskell news from the blogosphere. * [18]Optimus prime is actually dead, or, monadic transformers * [19]Haskell, PDF and penrose tilings * [20]Not everyone can dine at the Beverly Hills Social Club of Programming Languages * [21]Would you like a side of referential transparency with your order.. * [22]John Baez on lambda calculus and games * [23]Monads: a field guide * [24]Catch+YHC beats GHC 17. http://planet.haskell.org/ 18. http://brokenhut.livejournal.com/172054.html 19. http://www.alpheccar.org/en/posts/show/57 20. http://sequence.complete.org/node/215 21. http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/10/would-you-like-side-of-referential.html 22. http://wadler.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-baez-on-lambda-calculus-and-games.ht... 23. http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/10/monads-field-guide.html 24. http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2006/10/30-faster-than-ghc.html About the Haskell Weekly News Each week, new editions are posted to [25]the Haskell mailing list as well as to [26]the Haskell Sequence and [27]Planet Haskell. [28]RSS is also available, and headlines appear on [29]haskell.org. The Haskell Weekly News is also [30]available in Spanish translation. To help create new editions of this newsletter, please see the [31]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 25. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell 26. http://sequence.complete.org/ 27. http://planet.haskell.org/ 28. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed 29. http://haskell.org/ 30. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN/es 31. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN