John wrote:
I can't speak for Jason, but for me, this is not very useful. I don't want to write in a Haskell DSL, I want to write in Haskell. And not the whole program, either, just the parts that really lend themselves to functional programming (parsers, numeric computations, code generators, various algorithms).
What I presented is of course not a complete solution; this is just a tool to construct Javascript expressions in haskellized type-safe form. What I also mentioned: this monadic form may be an end-point for some other conversion, like GRIN. This answers the question how to translate a true Haskell program (like a parser) into Javascript (or a similar language). There are some experimental compilers with GRIN backends, plus I did my own experiments with GRIN that gave me some ideas. So I would just look at it as a starting point of some new family of tools which hopefully will end up opening possibility to translate Haskell things to Javascript. PS For now I am more concerned with the IDL part of it, but any suggestions on GRIN are welcome. -- Dimitry Golubovsky Anywhere on the Web