Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

The current section of the GHC manual on creating DLL's on Windows is fairly confusing to read, and has some bugs (i.e. 3605 ). Since I...

View Patterns are an interesting extension to the pattern matching capabilities of Haskell, implemented in GHC 6.10 and above. After using ...

HLint is a tool for automatically suggesting improvements to your Haskell code. This post describes how I use HLint, and provides and some ...

It's been a long time since I last blogged (about 3 months). Since then I've had a paper on Firstify accepted in to the Haskell Sym...

A few weeks ago David Miani asked how to write concise queries over a data type . The answer is certainly generic programming, a technique t...

Today I spotted that I could no longer push to my darcs repos hosted at York University. A little more checking showed that my home page had...

Recently on the Haskell mailing list there has been some discussions of which packages Hoogle searches by default. One person remarked that ...

Haskell has some ugly corners - not many, but a few. One that many people consider exceptionally ugly is the monomorphism restriction. In th...

Normally I give blog posts detailing the fun, interesting or advanced stuff I do with Haskell. But that isn't a real representation of m...

Kurt Schelfthout has just released FsCheck 0.4 , a tool similar to QuickCheck but for F#. While working at my internship for Credit Suisse ...

In my last post on F# I mentioned that do mapM f xs; return 1 caused a space leak, and that the programmer should have written mapM_ . I al...

I've recently started a full-time job at Standard Chartered . Before that I was doing an internship with Credit Suisse , where I spent a...

Update: See http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2011/12/enabling-reply-to-all-in-outlook.html for an updated version of this functionality. S...

It's been a little while since I last posted. I've recently got back from ICFP 2008 , and quite a few people asked me what I was doi...

As promised, here is a guide on deploying Hoogle on a web server. Before doing so, you need to generate the necessary Hoogle databases, as d...

Brief Annoucement: A new release of the Hoogle command line is out, including bug fixes and additional features. Upgrading is recommended....

I've now finished my Hoogle Summer of Code work, though I still intend to continue working on Hoogle when I get the chance. Before the c...

This week I've been trying to get Hoogle 4 to the point where it can replace Hoogle 3. This is the final official week of Google Summer ...

This week I've been releasing lots. Hoogle 4 is finally starting to come together, and should be a worthy replacement for Hoogle 3 very ...

Since releasing a command line version of Hoogle 4 yesterday, I've had some useful feedback from a number of people. As a result, I hav...