Haskell Weekly News: October 18, 2005 Greetings, and thanks for reading the 12th 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 * Decimal arithmetic library. Jeremy Shaw [3]announced the "premature release" of his new Decimal arithmetic library, which is designed for cases where binary floating point is not acceptable, such as money. 3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8734 * JRegex. John Meacham [4]announced JRegex, a library that interfaces to both PCRE and Posix regular expressions. 4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12340 * Haskell XML Toolbox 5.3. Uwe Schmidt [5]announced version 5.3 of the Haskell XML Toolbox. The main changes in this release are improvements to the arrow system. 5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12271 Requests for Participation Future Haskell Standard. Isaac Jones [6]posted a request for participation in the formation of the next standardized version of Haskell. 6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8646 HCAR Clarification. Last week's HWN story on the Haskell Communities & Activities Report (HCAR) had some misleading wording. Participation in this report is open to all, and submissions are encouraged from everyone. Discussion Haskell mentioned on Slashdot. Haskell was [7]mention on Slashdot. The post was refering to [8]an article about optimizing development for fun and had [9]pugs as its example. 7. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/09/1831219&tid=156 8. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7996 9. http://www.pugscode.org/ ZLib bindings. Joel Reymont [10]asked about code for handling GZip files. Henning Thielemann suggested the code in Darcs. Malcom Wallace pointed out code in qforeign, and John Goerzen mentioned the pure-Haskell implementation in MissingH. 10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8759 GADTs. Bulat Ziganshin began a [11]discussion asking for resources on GADTs. Several people posted links to helpful resources. 11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8708 Class aliases. John Meacham began a long [12]discussion by proposing class aliases, a language extension to solve problems of multiple implementations of the same concept in different libraries. 12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12276 About Haskell Weekly News Thanks to Josef Svenningsson for contributing material towards this week's HWN. Want to continue reading HWN? Please help us create new editions of this newsletter. Please see the [13]contributing information, or send stories to hwn -at- complete -dot- org. There is also a Darcs repository available. 13. http://sequence.complete.org/hwn-contrib