Monthly Archives: November 2011

Typeclassopedia v2: moving my efforts to the Haskell wiki

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Brent

I said back in April that I was going to be working on a second edition of the Typeclassopedia. Since then I have worked on it some, but mostly I’ve dithered trying to work out a toolchain for publishing it … Continue reading →

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Modern art with diagrams: the face of progress

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Brent

As an addendum to my previous post, here are a few outputs generated while I was debugging: For extra credit, deduce what the bugs were. ;)

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Generating plane tilings with diagrams

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Brent

I’ve finally set up a diagrams-contrib package to serve as a home for user contributions to the diagrams project—generation of specialized diagrams, fun or instructive examples, half-baked ideas, stuff which is not sufficiently polished or general to go in the … Continue reading →

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Wanted GHC feature: warn about unused constraints

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Brent

Consider the following function: foo :: (Show a, Ord a) => a -> a -> String foo x y = show x ++ show y Currently (as of GHC 7.2.1) when compiling this code with -Wall, no warnings are generated. … Continue reading →

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