18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
2:18 p.m.
Am 18.10.2011 18:53, schrieb Stephen Tetley:
Haskell has no support for reflection whatsoever.
It can support compile time meta-programming with Template Haskell.
Reflection itself might be antagonistic to functional programming, I suspect it is at odds with referential transparency. Most of the work on reflection seemed based around Lisp / Scheme - Christian Queinnec's reflective interpreter in Lisp in Small Pieces uses an awful lot of set! ....
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