At 18:17 17/10/03 -0400, Isaac Jones wrote:
Hmmmm. I may be able to get by without calling haskell functions from C. Most of the work would be done in C, and haskell would just be the "glue" language to let the user flexibly specify what he/she wants done.
I've always wanted to see some way to do embed Haskell in an application the way you can for Guile. This would be great for Embedded Domain-Specific languages :)
Is that what you've got here?
Separately from this thread, it has recently occurred to me that Haskell is an ideal tool for implementing "little languages" [1], particularly when they are declarative in nature. Specifically, Haskell's provision of higher order functions makes it relatively easy to translate some input language into a corresponding function which can then be directly evaluated, without the need for an explicit compilation or interpretation component. (These are some thoughts that I hope to explore further in my own work.) (Of course, this would apply to any language (ML springs to mind) that supports higher order functions.) #g -- [1] [1] Jon Bentley, Little languages, Communications of the ACM, 29(8):711--21, August 1986. ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact