April 2006 - Yhc - Haskell.org

Haskell.org and Google Summer of Code 2006
by Paolo Martini 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hello, It is now official. Haskell.org is a mentoring organization for this year's Summer of Code programme. You can see it listed on the official site <http://code.google.com/soc/> clicking on `Haskell.org (ideas)' you'll be directed to the trac site we are setting up. (It's 4 AM and I've just finished adding the projects, and cleaning things up a bit.) I am _very_ happy about seeing this project working out for real. I fear that I wouldn't be able to reach everybody even mailing all the important mailing list; I hope many students will be able to take advantage of this great occasion. Help me spread the word, tell everybody about the project :-) You can find the new site here <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/>, the StartPage will be updated with details during the program. Projects ideas and volunteers for mentoring are still very much welcome! students' application period starts on May 1. Thanks very much for the support, hope to hear thoughts and proposals, Paolo. --

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Google Summer of Code 2006
by Paolo Martini 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hello, Haskell.org is going to partecipate as mentoring organization to the Google Summer of Code programme of this year. We have formed a group of volunteers taking care of the administrative work as well as the mentoring part. The group is listed here: <http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Summer_of_Code:_People>. We are now looking for projects, and mentors. We've reached number 24 but we are happily going to add more, Haskell Open Source paid work for the summer! If you run some active open source program you might want to mentor some student who will be working on your code, for example. Either just add your ideas here: <http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Summer_of_Code:_Project_suggestions> (as well as your informations on the People's page) or contact me for details. I am also looking for students, I'd like to ear from them if they are going to partecipate with Haskell projects, last year I was alone! (I did write the bindings to the Cairo vector graphics library and integrated them in Gtk2Hs.) Details about the programme itself can be found on the official webpage: http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html Hoping you like the idea as much as me, Paolo. --

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Bytecode module interface
by Robert Dockins 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Hello all, I'm interested in doing some YHC bytecode manipulation, and I'd like to be able to read a bytecode module using Haskell. In the online Haddock docs, there's a lovely-looking module named 'Module' which contains readModule :: String -> Module http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/yhc/docs/Module.html However, 'Module' doesnt appear in the 'yhc' or 'yhc-devel' repositories. Does this code exist somewhere else? How can I get at it? Thanks Rob Dockins

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YHC .NET backend
by Oliver J Hunt 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Does anyone know if there are any papers available on how the Yhc .NET back end works? I've looked briefly at the codegen and output and as far as I can make out it is performing complete type erasure and converting everything to (effectively) typeless closures. Does anyone know if this is what is going on, or am i missing something entirely? Cheers, Oliver

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