2025/02/07

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2025-02-07 11:07:22 +0100 <tomsmeding> (That is to say, this one https://ocaml.org/manual/5.3/api/Map.Make.html )
2025-02-07 11:06:41 +0100 <tomsmeding> (I seem to recall that ocaml has various standard libraries)
2025-02-07 11:06:31 +0100 <tomsmeding> neiluj: is this the proper Map type to look at? https://ocaml.org/docs/maps
2025-02-07 11:06:20 +0100Smiles(uid551636@id-551636.lymington.irccloud.com) (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
2025-02-07 11:00:04 +0100 <neiluj> *typeclass
2025-02-07 10:59:13 +0100 <neiluj> kind of regretting I didn't go with Haskell for these bindings
2025-02-07 10:58:53 +0100 <neiluj> but that would work nicely with Data.Map as it would only require to implement the typecall Ord for that type
2025-02-07 10:58:11 +0100 <neiluj> just to give more context, wrote bindings to the Pari/GP C library https://github.com/jtcoolen/ocaml-pari/blob/staging/src/pari.mli#L5. The main type is an abstract polymorphic type 'a t for which I'd like to set up a map with keys of type 'a t. You cannot do that in OCaml, as Map.Make expects a non polymorphic type t for the keys
2025-02-07 10:57:22 +0100__monty__(~toonn@user/toonn) toonn
2025-02-07 10:56:49 +0100tcard(~tcard@2400:4051:5801:7500:cf17:befc:ff82:5303) (Quit: Leaving)
2025-02-07 10:55:36 +0100 <tomsmeding> neiluj: for my curiosity, how is this not true in ocaml?
2025-02-07 10:55:10 +0100 <neiluj> thanks!
2025-02-07 10:55:05 +0100 <neiluj> yes, that would totally work
2025-02-07 10:54:33 +0100 <tomsmeding> if that's not what you mean, then please elaborate :)
2025-02-07 10:54:32 +0100 <neiluj> true
2025-02-07 10:54:23 +0100 <tomsmeding> k is rather polymorphic and abstract here
2025-02-07 10:54:17 +0100 <yahb2> Data.Map.lookup ; :: Ord k => k -> Data.Map.Internal.Map k a -> Maybe a
2025-02-07 10:54:17 +0100 <tomsmeding> % :t Data.Map.lookup
2025-02-07 10:54:01 +0100 <neiluj> (hitting this limitation in OCaml)
2025-02-07 10:53:45 +0100 <neiluj> hi! is there a way to index a map by a polymorphic and abstract type?
2025-02-07 10:53:19 +0100neiluj(~julien@90.121.75.121) neiluj
2025-02-07 10:53:19 +0100 <haskellbridge> <magic_rb> There would be some fall out yet, but it does need to happen sooner or later in my opinion
2025-02-07 10:53:05 +0100remedan(~remedan@ip-62-245-108-153.bb.vodafone.cz) remedan
2025-02-07 10:50:52 +0100 <tomsmeding> technically, there would be no hackage split: each module could really decide for itself where to execute its splices. But practically, you do need to watch out
2025-02-07 10:50:13 +0100 <tomsmeding> viral is indeed the wrong word, I was confused for a bit
2025-02-07 10:49:48 +0100 <tomsmeding> because that was (is) the default
2025-02-07 10:49:41 +0100 <tomsmeding> but this is rather tricky if you unknowingly make use of functions from other packages that we written with "execution on the target" in mind
2025-02-07 10:49:11 +0100 <tomsmeding> which only makes a difference if you're cross-compiling
2025-02-07 10:48:55 +0100 <tomsmeding> dminuoso: make all splices in this module run on the host instead of the target.
2025-02-07 10:48:36 +0100 <dminuoso> tomsmeding: What does that fictional extension do?
2025-02-07 10:46:49 +0100 <tomsmeding> oh, hah, -XTemplateHaskellRunsOnHost would be viral -- yes, that would be a problem
2025-02-07 10:46:09 +0100 <dminuoso> The proposal probably isn't even the biggest difficulty. Somebody needs to engineer this into GHC, and for adoption to occur it needs to land in cabal (all parts of it). And there's lengthy discussions about whether to keep two concurrent TH infrastructures or the amount of breakage across hackage if new boundaries between host and target (imports and linkage) were introduced.
2025-02-07 10:46:07 +0100 <haskellbridge> <magic_rb> (i will also complain about our c binding generation story, which is worse than rusts -- and also not being able to pass "Storable a" on the stack to a function...)
2025-02-07 10:45:03 +0100 <tomsmeding> tbh -XTemplateHaskellRunsOnHost is maybe just the thing that fixes most problems for least effort
2025-02-07 10:44:55 +0100remedan(~remedan@ip-62-245-108-153.bb.vodafone.cz) (Quit: Bye!)
2025-02-07 10:44:42 +0100 <tomsmeding> compiling TH slices to native code instead of bytecode is something that isn't visible from userland, so that doesn't need a proposal, just a motivated ghc hacker
2025-02-07 10:44:36 +0100 <haskellbridge> <magic_rb> Cross compilation is becoming ever more important and TH (and plugins to a much worse degree) are blocking progress
2025-02-07 10:43:50 +0100 <haskellbridge> <magic_rb> I think we all agree that something needs to be done with TH and i also think all the somethings are quite close to each other. Someone just needs to write down a proposal
2025-02-07 10:43:35 +0100 <tomsmeding> right, there's some engineering required to make this happen in practice, but in terms of compilation and linking etc., it's not more difficult -- the work is "just" in adding flags to ghc and some logic in the build process to allow building shared libraries also for subsets of the module tree
2025-02-07 10:42:54 +0100 <int-e> That said I'm *for* separating TH imports from runtime imports. But it feels like a thing that you could do without dramatically changing TH.
2025-02-07 10:42:43 +0100 <haskellbridge> <magic_rb> Ig so, dunno how hard ghc makes that "just"
2025-02-07 10:42:39 +0100 <dminuoso> The convenience of just packing TH next to program code and importing in both directions comes at the price of convenience when using TH...
2025-02-07 10:42:12 +0100 <tomsmeding> you can just _not_ compile whatever modules depend on the module that contains the TH function definition, and then compile that to a library
2025-02-07 10:41:40 +0100 <haskellbridge> <magic_rb> Which is what proc macros become, shared objects afaik
2025-02-07 10:41:29 +0100 <int-e> While for Haskell that's a module.
2025-02-07 10:41:23 +0100 <haskellbridge> <magic_rb> Its harder to spew out a module into .so than a crate
2025-02-07 10:40:56 +0100 <int-e> which is not so different either; crates are rust's compilation units
2025-02-07 10:40:51 +0100tnt1(~Thunderbi@user/tnt1) tnt1
2025-02-07 10:40:39 +0100tnt1(~Thunderbi@user/tnt1) (Ping timeout: 268 seconds)
2025-02-07 10:40:37 +0100 <haskellbridge> <magic_rb> *drop the "To you" dunno how that happenef