On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Andrew Coppin wrote:
If I'm understanding this correctly, Template Haskell is a way to auto-generate repetative Haskell source code.
Amongst other things, yes. It's also a way to perform repetitive transformations on code, for example.
The thing that worries me is... if you need to write repetative Haskell source code, doesn't that mean that Haskell itself is broken in the first place?
For what're sometimes pretty picky values of broken that apply to almost any statically-typed language, yeah. Sometimes we don't know what non-broken would look like yet though. -- flippa@flippac.org "I think you mean Philippa. I believe Phillipa is the one from an alternate universe, who has a beard and programs in BASIC, using only gotos for control flow." -- Anton van Straaten on Lambda the Ultimate