On May 10, 2007, at 11:37 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
I've crawled all over the webpage, and I can't see any documentation anywhere to this effect, but presumably all this dynamic goodness only works if GHC is installed, right?
Yes, it's GHC-specific.
BTW... Does lambdabot seriously take every expression you type and compile it to a binary executable, dynamically link it, and execute it? I was expecting it to just run a simple source-level interpreter...
There ain't no such thing, and if it were it'd be painful at best. Future versions of lambdabot *might* use ghc-api instead, but yes, it really does compile and link a program. I think that allows it to exercise tighter control over what is permitted to execute, i.e. hide everything capable of I/O actions. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH