Don,
Having painless Haskell <- Java interoperability would be great. I'm curious though: could it really be so simple as a one-line ``import foreign jvm'' directive? I imagine the purity mismatch between Haskell and Java would be very troublesome.
No more so than C, surely. We're used to stateful APIs. They're a pain.
With this hypothetical ``import foreign jvm'' mechanism, what would the be type of imported Java stuff? Would it all be done in IO?
The more I think about it, the trickier it seems. Beside the purity mismatch of Haskell and Java, there is an OO/functional mismatch.
That's more of an issue. But the prior work has been done.
Do you have any references to this work? I'm quite interested in this, both from a Haskell perpective (although I'm still a beginner) and from being the author of a Perl <-> Java interoperability module (see http://search.cpan.org/~patl/Inline-Java-0.52/). Thanks, Patrick _______________________________________________
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