[Haskell-cafe] type-level integers for GHC

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

The type-nats branch *should* simply work all by itself. (You may need to check out a corresponding branch on some other repos, though.)

Iavor would you care to comment?

Simon

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Christiaan Baaij [mailto:christiaan.baaij at gmail.com]
| Sent: 20 May 2013 09:56
| To: Takayuki Muranushi
| Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones; haskell
| Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] type-level integers for GHC
| 
| What works best for me is to actually merge the type-nats branch into a
| local checkout of master; as opposed to checking out the type-nats
| branch.
| Though you will usually have to do some (minor) conflict resolution.
| 
| -- Christiaan
| 
| On May 17, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Takayuki Muranushi <muranushi at gmail.com>
| wrote:
| 
| > Hey thanks Simon and Levor, I've reported the problem month ago, and I
| > see today the commit-id for type-nats is still not changed. So I
| > thought the problem remains. Let me first try the compile process
| > again tonight, and report the compile process in more detail.
| >
| > 2013/5/17 Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>:
| >> I wonder why you can't compile type-nats?  It should just work.  You
| >> could email ghc-devs and Iavor (type-nats author, cc'd) explaining
| >> exactly what goes wrong. You may need the type-nats branch of some
| >> libraries, I'm not sure
| >>
| >> Simon
| >>
| >> Microsoft Research Limited (company number 03369488) is registered in
| >> England and Wales Registered office 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1
| >> 2FB
| >>
| >>
| >> | -----Original Message-----
| >> | From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-
| >> | bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Takayuki Muranushi
| >> | Sent: 17 May 2013 07:18
| >> | To: haskell
| >> | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] type-level integers for GHC
| >> |
| >> | What is your recommendation for type-level integers?
| >> |
| >> | I'd like to use it to improve the unittyped,
| >> | https://bitbucket.org/xnyhps/haskell-unittyped/ the library for
| >> | physical dimension. Therefore, I need negative numbers, additions,
| >> | but multiplications are not necessary.
| >> |
| >> | I've been looking forward for the type-nats extension of GHC, but I
| >> | haven't been able to compile the type-nats branch. Just learned
| >> | that it still takes a few month to merge the branch into the main.
| >> | http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May13
| >> |
| >> | Thijs, the original author of unittyped, has commited a branch that
| >> | uses type-nats, but I can't try that out for the same reason.
| >> |
| >> |
| >> | Best,
| >> | --
| >> | Takayuki MURANUSHI
| >> | The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University
| >> | http://www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/02_mem/h22/muranushi.html
| >> |
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| >
| >
| > --
| > Takayuki MURANUSHI
| > The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University
| > http://www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/02_mem/h22/muranushi.html
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