2010/5/4 Limestraël
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Minh, Kyle, Gwern, the dyre approach seems to be very interesting too. But if I understood well, we also have to recompile at run-time the configuration haskell script? So the final application (Yi, for instance) will need GHC to be installed to run? Or did I miss something? By the way, I had never heard of Yi, but can I deduce from its name its a Vi(m)-like (which I am a big fan of)? Moreover, the idea of scripting my editor in Haskell appeals me.
Yes GHC is needed. But if your goal is to produce something with the benefits of a complete language for configuration, I think it's fine. Numerous games include for instance a complete Lua interpreter, SketchUp includes a ruby interpreter (or maybe it is python), Blender uses python, Common Lisp programs can use Common Lisp, and so on. A complete language needs a complete implementation. If you want to make your own (non-embedded) DSL, you will either provide less than a "complete" language or have to implement a lot of stuff. Cheers, Thu