Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Summary: Hoogle Embed lets you include a small interactive Hoogle search box on your web page. I have just released Hoogle 4.2, which adds t...

Summary: I detail some of the changes in today's Hoogle release; I outline future plans for Hoogle; I plot some statistics, noting that ...

I've just released a new version of Hoogle to both Hackage and to haskell.org/hoogle . Hoogle is a Haskell search engine that allows yo...

Summary: This post describes how to install the Haskell network library on Windows. Update 2016: My current approach is here . The netw...

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 ...