Haskell Weekly News: June 25, 2006

user warning: UPDATE command denied to user 'drupalsequence'@'localhost' for table 'cache_filter' query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p> Welcome to issue 38 of HWN, a weekly\nnewsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. Each\nweek, new editions are posted to <a\nhref=\"http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell\">the Haskell\nmailing list</a> as well as to <a href=\"http://sequence.complete.org/\">the\nHaskell Sequence</a> and <a href=\"http://planet.haskell.org/\">Planet\nHaskell</a>. <a href=\"http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed\">RSS</a>\nis also available, and headlines appear on <a\nhref=\"http://haskell.org\">haskell.org</a>. </p> <p> This edition\nmechanised, automated and published thanks to Text.PrettyPrint,\nhopefully making it easier to keep the weekly news schedule in\nfuture. </p> <h4> Announcements </h4> <ul> <li> <p> <em> The GHC\nHackathon </em>. Simon Peyton-Jones <a\nhref=http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13838>announced</a>\nthat GHC HQ are going to run a hackathon, in Portland, just before\nICFP this September (14-15th). It\'ll be held at Galois\'s offices,\nin Beaverton. Thanks go to <a href=http://galois.com>Galois</a> for\nhosting the meeting. <a\nhref=http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Hackathon>Here</a>\nare the details. If you are interested in finding out a bit about\nhow GHC works inside, then you should find the hackathon fun. It\nwill be informal and interactive. If you think you might come,\nplease take a look at the above page, and register. </p> </li>\n<li> <p> <em> Bytecode API library </em>. Robert Dockins <a\nhref=http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.yhc/134>announced</a>\na release of an alpha version of a library for reading and writing\nthe YHC bytecode file format. It reads and writes the entire bytecode\nset, version 1.9 (the one used by recent YHC builds). <a\nhref=http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~rdocki01/yhc-bytecode.html>Check\nit out</a>. </p> </li> </ul> <h4> Haskell\' </h4> This section\ncovers the <a\nhref=http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime>Haskell\'</a>\nstandardisation process. <ul> <li> <a\nhref=\"http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1558/focus=1558\">Regarding\nClass Aliases</a> </li> </ul> <h4> Discussion </h4> <ul> <li> <p>\n<em> Extensible records using associated types </em>. Barney Hilken\n<a\nhref=http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13828/focus=13828>suggested</a>\nan interesting encoding of polymorphic extensible records using\nassociated types. </p> </li> <li> <p> <em> Graphing community\nactivity </em>. Don Stewart <a\nhref=http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13830>posted</a>\nstarted graphing the commit activity of <a\nhref=http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/images/commits/community/>various</a>\nHaskell community projects over time. </p> </li> </ul> <h4>\nContributing to HWN </h4> <p> To help create new editions of this\nnewsletter, please see the <a\nhref=\"http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN\">contributing information</a>.\nSend stories to <code>\n dons at cse.unsw.edu.au </code>\n. The darcs repository is available at<br>\n<code> darcs get http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hwn </code>\n</p> ', created = 1228366405, expire = 1228452805, headers = '' WHERE cid = '6:e5f72059d19210c05bea2947f4e07f09' in /var/local/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172.