[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: HNOP 0.1

[moved to cafe] On Jun 30, 2006, at 4:01 AM, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

In article <252C89C12FCAD84BA018CAD5268682FD0190C955@GBLONXMB02.corp.amvescap.net

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, "Bayley, Alistair" wrote:

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Cool, that's awesome. But I don't see any Haddock docs? Or a Cabal Setup.hs? Would it be much trouble to add them?

Bear in mind HNOP compiles just to an executable file, so it doesn't really have a Haskell API.

One interesting line of development would be to spin off the core functionality into a separate library, to provide no-op services to other Haskell applications.

I'm sorry; I know this is a serious discussion (either that or everyone involved in this discussion has a more subtle sense of humor than I), but this sentence made me laugh out loud... :-) "no-op services"? That's just great!

I'm thinking something like this:

noop :: IO () -- generalise to other Monads?

This would actually not be too hard to write, given my existing work, and then of course the executable would simply be a thin wrapper.

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