In general, you can't do that. You can only do it if you restrict the functions that can be called somehow, e.g., by having a list of callable functions and their names. Why do you want to do this? Perhaps there is a more Haskelly solution to your problem. -- Lennart On Apr 8, 2007, at 11:01 , Philipp Volgger wrote:
Hello everybody! Can me somebody say how I can call a function by string? Thus I want to have a function that has as argument a string (name of a function to call) and then tries to call that function, a kind of:
functionCall :: String -> [String] -> RetVal functionCall functionName arguments = ...
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