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Posts from April 2009

RQuery: now with | and & operators

This weekend I wanted to tackle some of rquery’s shortcomings so I added the ability to |/& your operations and also the ability to use an object in the block instead of the symbol class for the column names. I agree with the assertion that it’s bad to pollute other classes, but I still think [...]


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22 April 2009 @ 8pm

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Searching the abstract form in erlang

[update: I've added the head matching version of the check funs as per the recommendations in the comments. Thanks Hynek!] I imagine there’s a much better way to do this, but in the process of writing another parse_transform hack I wanted to search for specific things within the abstract form of a module which looks [...]


non-deterministic description

File this under that “meta-tao of hacking” or WARNING: thar be rosy language and fluff hereabouts. Walking my dog down the street at dusk today the air had a nice warmth to it and I enjoyed the pink and gold hues of the sunset (please stick with this post it does go somewhere). It’s warming [...]


Haskell learnings

This week I caved and decided to learn haskell. I’m about 5 chapters into RWH and its great except for a few topics they gloss over early on (Type classes, $). Luckily my attention was directed here, and I was quickly able to fill in some gaps. Big thanks to f4hy from proggit for the [...]