On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Stephen Blackheath [to GHC-iPhone] <likeliest.complexions.stephen@blacksapphire.com> wrote:

David,

That is great, and, especially, welcome to Haskell!  As I said, I am working on a new version of GHC for iPhone.  There probably isn't much sense in involving you in that at this point.  I'll get you to test for me when I have something working.

I can't think of anything obvious for you to do now, but I'll keep it in the back of my mind.  Haskell bindings to iPhone infrastructure are lacking, so maybe you could look at that.

Cool.

I'm currently working on taking http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours and making it an iPad app. ;-)  Hopefully I'll be done tomorrow and be able to share it.

I'm noodling with how to generically express Obj-C method invocations in Haskell in a way that would allow for automatic binding/ffi generation via Obj-C header files.  I'm not sure it's possible, but it'd certainly reduce the amount of boilerplate (it's also been a long time since I've done low level Obj-C dispatch snooping... I wonder what's changed. ;-) )

I'm also thinking about how to use Haskell's GC to do automatic retain/release calls...

Anyway... more as I make progress.