Re: [Haskell-cafe] Mutually recursive modules and google protocol-buffers

John Meacham wrote:

Chris Kuklewicz wrote:

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I have reached an impasse in designing a Haskell API for the google's The messages in protobuf are defined in a namespace that nests in the usual hierarchical OO style that Java encourages.

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To avoid namespace conflicts, I made a hierarchy of modules.

I wonder if this is the root of your issue, OO concepts don't map directly to haskell concepts a lot of the time. You may end up with some very atypical haskell code if you try to copy OO designs directly.

What do you think is a good approach to a protocol buffer parser generator? -- _jsn