My first experiment with Template Haskell is available for download (16KB) at: http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/imawww/thaller/wolfgang/HOC020103.tar.bz2 HOC --- Haskell to Objective C ============================== This is a first development snapshot of HOC, an experimental Haskell binding to Apple's Objective C runtime on Mac OS X. It is intended to be used in order to access the "Cocoa" API for writing graphical user interfaces entirely in Haskell. HOC relies on Template Haskell to achieve its goals and therefore requires a prerelease GHC 5.05 (from CVS) in order to run. No additional code-generating tools are required. You can: *) create objects *) send messages *) define classes Not yet supported: *) floating-point parameters *) messages to super *) ghci (the ghci Linker doesn't currently load Objective-C object files) Other disappointments: *) Memory management of Objective C objects has to be done manually. *) You have to declare Cocoa classes, selectors and their types first, they are not predefined. Compile using sh build.sh and run by double-clicking the Test application or by typing Test.app/Contents/MacOS/Test If you double-click the Test application before compiling, the Finder will report an "unexpected error" (because the Test.app wrapper doesn't contain a binary). ------- (C) 2003 Wolfgang Thaller Permission is granted to use it for any purpose you like. It is provided AS IS, there are absolutely no warranties. ------- Have fun! Wolfgang Thaller wolfgang.thaller@gmx.net