[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: June 25, 2006

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

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Haskell Weekly News
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN
Issue 38 - June 25, 2006
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   Welcome to issue 38 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering developments
   in the Haskell community. Each week, new editions are posted to [1]the
   Haskell mailing list as well as to [2]the Haskell Sequence and
   [3]Planet Haskell. [4]RSS is also available, and headlines appear on
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Announcements

     * The GHC Hackathon . Simon Peyton-Jones [6]announced that GHC HQ
       are going to run a hackathon, in Portland, just before ICFP this
       September (14-15th). It'll be held at Galois's offices, in
       Beaverton. Thanks go to [7]Galois for hosting the meeting. [8]Here
       are the details. If you are interested in finding out a bit about
       how GHC works inside, then you should find the hackathon fun. It
       will be informal and interactive. If you think you might come,
       please take a look at the above page, and register.

   6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13838
   7. http://galois.com/
   8. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Hackathon

     * Bytecode API library . Robert Dockins [9]announced a release of an
       alpha version of a library for reading and writing the YHC
       bytecode file format. It reads and writes the entire bytecode set,
       version 1.9 (the one used by recent YHC builds). [10]Check it out.

   9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.yhc/134
  10. http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~rdocki01/yhc-bytecode.html

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   This section covers the [11]Haskell' standardisation process.

     * [12]Regarding Class Aliases

  11. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime
  12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1558/focus=1558

Discussion

     * Extensible records using associated types . Barney Hilken
       [13]suggested an interesting encoding of polymorphic extensible
       records using associated types.

  13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13828/focus=13828

     * Graphing community activity . Don Stewart [14]posted started
       graphing the commit activity of [15]various Haskell community
       projects over time.

  14. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13830
  15. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/images/commits/community/

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