Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: MUA written in Haskell (was: Getting GHC to print "Done" when it's finished linking?)

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 07:52:28PM -0000, Brian Hulley wrote:

To: Nils Anders Danielsson Cc: Haskell Cafe From: Brian Hulley Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:52:28 -0000 Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Re: MUA written in Haskell (was: Getting GHC to print "Done" when it's finished linking?)

Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:

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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006, "Brian Hulley" wrote:

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5) Ideally the scripting language would be Haskell. There is already stuff in Language.Haskell.* for doing parsing but I can't find anything which would allow you to compile and load functions into a running program.

this would be cool, but i don't think it's very urgent. i would be perfectly happy with a config directory that is scanned for code every time i *recompile* my MUA. it's not gonna happen every day. and for those few people who like installshields and still want to plug in code that doesn't come with the distribution, the entire program could be shipped within ghci. i don't think this is a very resource-hungry application for modern hardware standards. nice wish list. corpus navigation is missing, though. a large topic, and i have lots of ideas too half-baked to put in writing. but you should give it a thought. m. ps: did anybody get the riot thing compiled with ghc-6.4? i have the feeling there are some changes in the packageing interface in one of the last ghc version shifts that bit me, and i was too distracted to figure it out. though i am really curious.