10 May
2007
10 May
'07
3:37 p.m.
Regarding Lambdabot, if dynamic loading is all you're after then you'd be better off learning how to use hs-plugins and rolling your own. It's pretty simple. For dynamic-loading-application design ideas, I suggest reading this Yi paper: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/SC05.html
hs-plugins? Mmm... what an interesting concept. I've crawled all over the webpage, and I can't see any documentation anywhere to this effect, but presumably all this dynamic goodness only works if GHC is installed, right? BTW... Does lambdabot seriously take every expression you type and compile it to a binary executable, dynamically link it, and execute it? I was expecting it to just run a simple source-level interpreter...