Hi there, I'm currently programming my first non toy project in Haskell. I come from Ruby background, where everything is possible no matter how much entropy the universe gains after you finish your work, so I'm still not sure how to do certain things without this side-effect :) I'll try to be concise. My idea is that the project would consist of several different Haskell packages. The central one, call it Core, would define a certain data type (with info about certain URLs). Other packages would define each one an strategy to do something with that data type (processing the URL info). Each strategy would have its own dependencies, and as a user probably won't need all of the strategies, I would like to keep them in separated packages so she or he has no need to download the unneeded stuff. The problem is that Core should act as the central dashboard, whether through a CLI or even a web frontend. For example, in the CLI case, I would like to be able to install Core package along with package StrategyA and package StrategyB and then do something like the following: ``` bash> core --action=fetch --strategy=A bash> core --action=fetch --strategy=B ``` Two generic ideas come to my mind but I don't know how to translate them to Haskell: - Infer module name from the `--strategy` argument and call it dynamically. However, as far as I know, in Haskell modules are not first class citizens, so no way I can dynamically call them. I have read something to achieve this through Template Haskell or through outdaded [plugins](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/plugins) package, but I'm not sure whether the need is the same and anyway it seems quite unnatural to Haskell (I would not like to go against it, but to learn to do thing in its way). - Define from Core some kind of global list where strategy packages can register a map between CLI argument value and a defined instance of the core data type. But, again, how to do global things in Haskell (and I would prefer not to need external tools like RDBMS, filesystem or whatever)? And, anyway, surely I don't want to do this because concurrency and everything... Any idea? Thanks in advance! Marc Busqué http://waiting-for-dev.github.io/about/