[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is Haskell not homoiconic?

"Henning Sato von Rosen" writes:

Hi all!

I am curious as to why Haskell not is homoiconic?

It very nearly is. The icon for Haskell is a lower-case lambda, but the logo for these folk http://www.ualberta.ca/~cbidwell/cmb/lambda.htm is an upper-case lambda.

Homiconic means that "the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself"

Oh, dear, that renders my remark above irrelevant ;-0 The main reason is that Haskell is designed as a compiled language, so the source of the programme can safely disappear at runtime. So there's no need to have a representation of it beyond the source code. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk