Welcome to issue 230 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the
week of May 27 to June 02, 2012.
Announcements
Mark Lentczner had great news for us this week, announcing the
release of the Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0. Many many thanks to the
platform team for getting this release out the door!
[1]
http://goo.gl/XX9P6Top Reddit Stories
* Conduit bugs
Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 45, Comments: 25
On Reddit: [2]
http://goo.gl/hQCbs Original: [3]
http://goo.gl/3wR5W * Response to "Conduit Bugs"
Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 43, Comments: 53
On Reddit: [4]
http://goo.gl/TV5i3 Original: [5]
http://goo.gl/N8uMM * Haskell fully async Chan/TChan vs. Go's channels
Domain: plus.google.com, Score: 42, Comments: 14
On Reddit: [6]
http://goo.gl/UJBXN Original: [7]
http://goo.gl/K0zzA * Most Important GHC extensions to learn/use?
Domain: permalink.gmane.org, Score: 38, Comments: 11
On Reddit: [8]
http://goo.gl/i6ofz Original: [9]
http://goo.gl/x7Mxg * What's so bad about Template Haskell?
Domain: stackoverflow.com, Score: 35, Comments: 8
On Reddit: [10]
http://goo.gl/fdiUm Original: [11]
http://goo.gl/Vg4AT * stylish-haskell: A simple tool to clean up Haskell code
Domain: github.com, Score: 32, Comments: 74
On Reddit: [12]
http://goo.gl/QT9br Original: [13]
http://goo.gl/TlZum * Understanding Haskell's monomorphism restriction
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 27, Comments: 38
On Reddit: [14]
http://goo.gl/tb1uC Original: [15]
http://goo.gl/tb1uC * Pipes 2.0 vs pipes-core
Domain: paolocapriotti.com, Score: 26, Comments: 40
On Reddit: [16]
http://goo.gl/lmNeD Original: [17]
http://goo.gl/najMM * FP Complete and Well-Typed delivered a two-day hands-on
Haskell training at Qualcomm
Domain: haskell.org, Score: 26, Comments: 2
On Reddit: [18]
http://goo.gl/R3Ufl Original: [19]
http://goo.gl/sC3O3 * ICFP'12 Accepted Papers (with links, where available!)
Domain: github.com, Score: 26, Comments: 2
On Reddit: [20]
http://goo.gl/361wt Original: [21]
http://goo.gl/3ACvzTop StackOverflow Questions
* What's so bad about Template Haskell?
votes: 67, answers: 3
Read on SO: [22]
http://goo.gl/Vg4AT * Which Haskell (GHC) extensions should users use/avoid?
votes: 23, answers: 1
Read on SO: [23]
http://goo.gl/s0TNH * Space leak with redundant use of seq in GHC interpreter
votes: 17, answers: 2
Read on SO: [24]
http://goo.gl/no97P * Is there a list of GHC extensions that are considered 'safe'?
votes: 15, answers: 1
Read on SO: [25]
http://goo.gl/10SJc * What are lenses used/useful for?
votes: 14, answers: 4
Read on SO: [26]
http://goo.gl/kn8uj * Haskell: Can I perform several folds over the same lazy list without
keeping list in memory?
votes: 12, answers: 2
Read on SO: [27]
http://goo.gl/VuWQ7 * What are the advantages and disadvantages of using lenses?
votes: 11, answers: 2
Read on SO: [28]
http://goo.gl/kGX4B * Calculating work done by f x = (x,x)
votes: 11, answers: 1
Read on SO: [29]
http://goo.gl/838C2 * Why is function definition for all types at once not allowed in Haskell?
votes: 10, answers: 5
Read on SO: [30]
http://goo.gl/eoDXp * Generic variant of bi f a b = (f a, f b)
votes: 9, answers: 4
Read on SO: [31]
http://goo.gl/NPDMU * Unicode console I/O in Haskell on Windows
votes: 9, answers: 1
Read on SO: [32]
http://goo.gl/AFCQhUntil next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz
References
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http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.platform/1964 2.
http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/05/conduit-bugs.html 3.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/u7vyx/conduit_bugs/ 4.
http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/05/response-conduit-bugs 5.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/u8fe6/response_to_conduit_bugs/ 6.
https://plus.google.com/109566665911385859313/posts/FAmNTExSLtz 7.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ubmz7/haskell_fully_async_chantchan_vs_gos_channels/ 8.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/98574 9.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ufenx/most_important_ghc_extensions_to_learnuse/ 10.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10857030/whats-so-bad-about-template-haskell 11.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ugd94/whats_so_bad_about_template_haskell/ 12.
https://github.com/jaspervdj/stylish-haskell/blob/master/README.markdown 13.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/u8u1y/stylishhaskell_a_simple_tool_to_clean_up_haskell/ 14.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/udnx2/understanding_haskells_monomorphism_restriction/ 15.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/udnx2/understanding_haskells_monomorphism_restriction/ 16.
http://paolocapriotti.com/blog/2012/05/29/pipes-2.0-vs-pipes-core/ 17.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/uav9d/pipes_20_vs_pipescore/ 18.
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-June/101558.html 19.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ug4wq/fp_complete_and_welltyped_delivered_a_twoday/ 20.
https://github.com/technogeeky/icfp12-paper-links/blob/master/README.md 21.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/uhhd2/icfp12_accepted_papers_with_links_where_available/ 22.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10857030/whats-so-bad-about-template-haskell 23.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10845179/which-haskell-ghc-extensions-should-users-use-avoid 24.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10793371/space-leak-with-redundant-use-of-seq-in-ghc-interpreter 25.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10830757/is-there-a-list-of-ghc-extensions-that-are-considered-safe 26.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10788261/what-are-lenses-used-useful-for 27.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10803221/haskell-can-i-perform-several-folds-over-the-same-lazy-list-without-keeping-lis 28.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10774614/what-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-using-lenses 29.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10825933/calculating-work-done-by-f-x-x-x 30.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10811657/why-is-function-definition-for-all-types-at-once-not-allowed-in-haskell 31.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10772121/generic-variant-of-bi-f-a-b-f-a-f-b 32.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10779149/unicode-console-i-o-in-haskell-on-windows_______________________________________________
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