http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/ $ en-us Copyright 2003-2005, Talk About Network. All Rights Reserved. 2008-05-11T18:05:26+00:00 TAN rss@talkaboutnetwork.com Discussion hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://tan12.talkaboutnetwork.com/images/spacer.gif http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/ http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67481.html In the past weeks ive been thinking over the problem on the practical problems of regex in its matching power. For example, often it cant be used to match anything of nested nature, even the most simple nesting. It cant be used to match any simple gr... xahlee@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltxahlee@[EMAI... Discussion 2008-05-09T22:52:30+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67469.html CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Generic Programming 2008 Victoria, Canada, 20th September 2008 http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/wgp2008/cfp.{html,pdf,ps,txt} The Workshop on Generic Programming ... Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair) lti... Discussion 2008-05-08T12:06:11+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67466.html FringeDC is a group in the Washington DC area interested in fringe and functional languages (Lisp, Haskell, Arc, Prolog, etc.) If youre in the DC area, please join us this Saturday over a beer! http://www.lisperati.com/fringedc.html http://www.lisp... Conrad ltdrcode@[EMAIL PROTECTED] gt Discussion 2008-05-08T05:38:16+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67456.html Id like to introduce a blog post by Stephen Wolfram, on the design process of Mathematica. In particular, he touches on the importance of naming of functions. =E2=80=A2 Ten Thousand Hours of Design Reviews (2008 Jan 10) by Stephen Wolfram http://bl... xahlee@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltxahlee@[EMAI... Discussion 2008-05-07T16:13:36+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67455.html anybody have a feel of how hard it is generally hand-wavingly speaking to add type inference to a language (i have in mind an oo/functional one, actually, probably not just functional) later? as in, im not smart enough to do the type inference implem... raould ltraould@[EMAIL PROTECTED] gt Discussion 2008-05-07T14:25:16+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67454.html Calls for Papers: International Conference on Communications Systems and Technologies (ICCST 2008) From: International Association of Engineers (IAENG) San Francisco, USA, 22-24 October, 2008 http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2008/ICCST2008.html The confere... wce_2008@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Discussion 2008-05-07T04:00:08+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67452.html --=-=-= Hello, we have extended the deadline for the 5th European Lisp Workshop. The new timetable gives two more weeks for paper submission. Please find the updated call for papers below. --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain charset=iso-885... Didier Verna ltdidier@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Discussion 2008-05-06T10:10:55+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67445.html On May 2, 9:24 am, Kaz Kylheku kkylh...@gmail.com wrote: Order is perhaps the number of levels of indirection you must dereference to actually call a function which just returns or accepts a plain datum. Lambda increases order, funcall decrease... rossberg@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Discussion 2008-05-02T09:14:02+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67442.html On May 2, 10:49=A0am, Slobodan Blazeski slobodan.blaze...@gmail.com wrote: I dont know where such thing would be useful. Or is there any real life analogy about it. Practically, maybe something like this could turn up in real code: (defun raise (... Chris Russell ltchristopher.m.russell@[E... Discussion 2008-05-02T03:22:23+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67441.html On May 2, 9:24=A0am, Kaz Kylheku kkylh...@gmail.com wrote: On May 2, 12:05=A0am, Slobodan Blazeski slobodan.blaze...@gmail.com wrote: On May 2, 3:55=A0am, Steven M. Haflich s...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Disfunctional minds want to know! What wo... Slobodan Blazeski ltslobodan.blazeski@[E... Discussion 2008-05-02T02:49:47+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67440.html There is no universal definition of the concept of closure in the context of programing languages. Basically, if your language can define a function, and maitain a permanent internal variable inside, its closure. For example, if you define a global... xahlee@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltxahlee@[EMAI... Discussion 2008-05-02T02:02:14+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67439.html On May 2, 12:05=A0am, Slobodan Blazeski slobodan.blaze...@gmail.com wrote: On May 2, 3:55=A0am, Steven M. Haflich s...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Disfunctional minds want to know! What would mean to raise the order of a function? We have only stadard ... Kaz Kylheku ltkkylheku@[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Discussion 2008-05-02T00:24:45+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67438.html On May 2, 3:55=A0am, Steven M. Haflich s...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Kent M Pitman wrote: Didier Verna did...@lrde.epita.fr writes: Kent M Pitman pit...@nhplace.com wrote: Is a higher order question: a) a question that can take as a parameter a... Slobodan Blazeski ltslobodan.blazeski@[E... Discussion 2008-05-02T00:05:28+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67436.html Of interest: a blog post from Wolfram Research: http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/04/29/today-we-broke-the-bernoulli-record-from-= the-analytical-engine-to-mathematica/ this illustrates, partially, the power of having a full set of mathematical functio... xahlee@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltxahlee@[EMAI... Discussion 2008-05-01T22:37:57+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67429.html (Its been suggested that I post this announcement on comp.lang.scheme and comp.lang.functional as well as computer music specific fora, so here it goes. Note that the garbage collector exploits the specific nature of audio block processing to per... Kjetil S. Matheussen ltk.s.matheussen@[E... Discussion 2008-05-01T14:38:08+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67427.html The 2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming will be held * in Victoria, British Columbia, * on Saturday, 20 September, two days before ICFP. The submission deadline is Friday, 20 June. I hope to see many of you in that lovely ci... cesura17@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Discussion 2008-04-30T09:54:32+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67425.html Apologies if you receive multiple copies ________________________________________ Final Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------ Fifth Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules ... CHR 2008 Workshop Coordinators ltchr2008... Discussion 2008-04-29T17:33:32+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67421.html One of the functional programming feature is absence of variables assignments, than allows to avoid side effects. But writing and reading data is alike set and get external variables, so we again come to a risk get side effects working with databases... salog ltalesmaer@[EMAIL PROTECTED] gt Discussion 2008-04-28T20:02:07+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67418.html Hello All, We have started with a new programming discussion group on Gmail. TechnicalTalk is a group dedicated to computer programming discussion, programming tutorials, programming articles and much more. Feel free to join this group and solve yo... technica ltTechnicalTalk.forum@[EMAIL PR... Discussion 2008-04-27T04:04:51+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/messages/67413.html Am Donnerstag, den 24.04.2008, 19:04 -0700 schrieb Paul Rubin: On a meta level, the notion that adding features to a language makes it more capable is tempting but bogus. Not bogus - in fact adding a feature does make a language more capable. Ad... Joachim Durchholz ltjo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Discussion 2008-04-25T16:17:09+00:00 Search talkaboutprogramming.com Functional q http://talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.functional/search.html