Hi, I'm beginning to work with TH. I'm sincerely finding the whole thing extraordinary, using (nearly) plain Haskell to write Haskell macros. I think this idea will have great echoes on the programming community : Haskell was already the best language, so now it will be a model for everyone (I am dreaming). There is a drawback in the current implementation though : I think the names of the data and functions are terrible ! First they are way too short. Describing a combined concept in 4 letters is OK for people who invented them, not for common users. And I don't see any logic in the spelling : Mat, Match and Mtch, no way to remember that ! But one is a constructor, the same one is a type, one is a data type, and the last one is a monad type. There is also Exp and Expr, dotdotC which should may be spelled dotDotC,Con Constr Cons, and so on May be we can now have the opportunity to find a clear rule, involving prefixing or suffixing and a sufficient number of letters, before everyone use it and it is impossible to change it. Maybe functions and data in TH should have some marking symbol (everything begins with th or TH) so it is easier to see what is executed at compilation and what is executed at run-time (I know that TH functions are ordinary functions though). Well, I've said it. Anyway I still think TH is a big step in a language that was already far ahead, and its designers deserve standing ovations. Alain
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Alain Cremieux