On Fri, 12 May 2006, Brian Hulley wrote:
Udo Stenzel wrote:
I'd like one as a scripting environment, a bit like scsh, just strongly typed and easier on the eyes. Haskell as interactive shell would be a nightmare indeed, having to type 'system "foo"' instead of simply 'foo' for everyday commands just won't cut it.
This seems to be your only objection. It might be solvable by making some rule that an identifier that's used in a value position would be automatically bound to a function/value found by instantiating to a binary in the file system if it's not already bound, and there would need to be some rules about how binaries would work to cooperate with the Haskell type system.
What about the parameters - certainly there's little point in relieving me of the bother of quoting a command name, if I have to quote each parameter? Donn Cave, donn@drizzle.com