<commit_before>---
title: Issue 39
published: 2017-01-26
---

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## News from the Haskell community

-   [Fun with hint](http://kseo.github.io//posts/2017-01-19-fun-with-hint.html)

    > GHC allows us to compile and execute Haskell code dynamically through GHC API. The hint library provides a Haskell interpreter built on top of GHC API. It allows us to load and execute Haskell expressions and even coerce them into values.

## Package of the week<commit_msg>Link to Stackage LTS 8 outline<commit_after>---
title: Issue 39
published: 2017-01-26
---

Welcome to Haskell Weekly!
[Haskell](https://haskell-lang.org) is an advanced, purely functional programming language.
This is a weekly summary of what's going on in its community.
You can subscribe to [the email newsletter](https://news.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=49a6a2e17b12be2c5c4dcb232&id=ffbbbbd930)
or [the Atom feed](/haskell-weekly.atom).

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Send us a message [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/haskellweekly)
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## News from the Haskell community

-   [GHC 8.0.2 on Stackage Nightly. Here's the LTS plan.](https://lwm.github.io/stackage-8.0.2/)

    > GHC 8.0.2 has been released! A big congratulations to everyone who was involved. Accordingly, the Stackage curators teams has been quickly able to cut a new nightly release which supports GHC 8.0.2. Thanks to the efforts of the package authors and Stackage maintainers so far!

-   [Fun with hint](http://kseo.github.io//posts/2017-01-19-fun-with-hint.html)

    > GHC allows us to compile and execute Haskell code dynamically through GHC API. The hint library provides a Haskell interpreter built on top of GHC API. It allows us to load and execute Haskell expressions and even coerce them into values.

## Package of the week
{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.09614587650227932, 'fraction_numerical': 0.03605470368835474, 'mean_word_length': 4.317180616740088, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 3, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 6, 'https://': 9, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
{'dir': 'git-commits-cleaned', 'id': '1278367', 'n_tokens_mistral': 831, 'n_tokens_neox': 717, 'n_words': 282}