Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Summary : I wrote a little script on top of cabal sdist that checks for common mistakes. Cabal is the standard way to distribute Haskell pa...

Summary : I want three changes to the Haskell standard libraries. System.Info.isWindows should be added, Control.Monad.concatMapM should b...

Summary: A simple CmdArgs parser is incredibly simple (just a data type). A more advanced CmdArgs parser is still pretty simple (a few annot...

I've just released CmdArgs 0.2 to Hackage . CmdArgs is a library for defining and parsing command lines. The focus of CmdArgs is allow...

I have written a paper building on my Supero work that has been accepted to ICFP 2010 . Various people have asked for copies of the paper, ...

The Uniplate library contains many traversal operations, some based on functions in SYB (Scrap Your Boilerplate) . SYB provides everywhere ...

Haskell has long been my favoured scripting language, and in this post I thought I'd share one of my more IO heavy scripts. I have an ex...

HLint is a tool for suggesting improvements to Haskell code. Recently I've put some effort in to optimisation and HLint is now over 20 ...

A few days ago I posted about my plan to use .ghci files for all my projects. I am now doing so in at least five projects, and it's wor...

I develop a reasonable number of different Haskell projects, and tend to switch between them regularly. I often come back to a project after...

This tutorial explains how to perform IO in Haskell , without attempting to give any understanding of monads. We start with the simplest exa...

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...