Haskell Weekly

Issue 149

Welcome to another issue of Haskell Weekly! Haskell is a safe, purely functional programming language with a fast, concurrent runtime. This is a weekly summary of what’s going on in its community.

Featured

  • Aeson’s mysterious lazy parsing by Han Dong Zhu

    Aeson provide two flavor of parsing entrances: decode and decode'. The document on decode says that “This function parses immediately, but defers conversion.”

  • Beeraffe by Jasper Van der Jeugt

    This weekend, I finished a silly little game in PureScript called Beeraffe. In this blogpost, I want to give some more background information on how this game came to be.

  • Exceptions tutorial from IH book by Mark Karpov

    In a language like Haskell, with its strong and powerful type system, why should we “contaminate” such a language with the concept of exceptions?

  • GHC 8.6.4 released by Ben Gamari

    The GHC team is very happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.4, a bugfix release in the GHC 8.6 series. The 8.6.4 release fixes several regressions present in 8.6.3.

  • Hanayama O’Gear Puzzle by Ben Wiener

    I tried solving the puzzle for about fifteen minutes before deciding to use a computer. My basic strategy was to treat the problem as a graph search, where the nodes of the graph are the different states the cube and gear can be in.

  • Monoidal and Applicative Functors by Marcin Szamotulski

    In this post we will explore the equivalence between applicative and monoidal functors (i.e. functors which preserve cartesian product).

  • Object oriented Haskell by Julie Moronuki

    This week’s most exciting announcement is that I am learning a bit of object-oriented programming and how that translates into Haskell.

  • Property-Based Testing in a Screencast Editor: Introduction by Oskar Wickström

    This is the first in a series of posts about using property-based testing (PBT) within Komposition, a screencast editor that I’ve been working on during the last year.

  • Recursion Schemes, Part VI: Comonads, Composition, and Generality by Patrick Thomson

    Now that we’ve covered folds (cata, para, and histo), unfolds (ana, apo, and futu), and refolds (hylo, hypo, elgot, and chrono), I hope I have showed that recursion schemes are a useful tool to organize programs, beautify code, and clarify human intent.

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    Taylor Fausak, the editor of Haskell Weekly, is the lead engineer at ITProTV.

In brief

Package of the week

This week’s package of the week is fakedata, a library for producing fake data such as names, addressess and phone numbers.

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