Re: Lang. (was Re: Alternative hierarchy proposal)

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:23:05PM +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:24:13 +0000, Malcolm Wallace pisze:

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Here in my scheme, Haskell.Plus contains extensions to the language, and Haskell.Language contains utilities to manipulate the source language itself.

I must say that I haven't guessed what Haskell.Plus means until I saw it explained. It is not clear.

I agree. I think Haskell.Extensions is far clearer.

Also tools for manipulating the language sources are very different from language support modules. They should not be put together; it's a coincidence that they could be put under the title "Haskell".

Instead, tools for manipulating our language (parsers, typecheckers etc.) should be together with tools for manulpulating other languages, and language-independent tools.

Again agreed, as I've said elsewhere. Ian -- Ian Lynagh - http://c93.keble.ox.ac.uk/~ian/haskell/