Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-06 Thread Claus Reinke
if you want to make something like this for haskell (and i'd very much like to use it!-), there are several issues, including: 1 handling code: - going for a portable intermediate representation, such as bytecode, is most promising, especially if the code representation is fai

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-05 Thread gwern0
On 2007.12.05 15:56:49 +0100, John van Groningen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled 0.7K characters: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hey everyone; recently I've been toying around with various methods of > >writing a shell and reading the academic literature on such things. The best > >prior art on t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-05 Thread Sterling Clover
In an email to the HAppS listt today, alexj described that HAppS-State "provides a way to serialize function calls for replay either on-restart or on other replicated boxes." (which actually helped me to understand somewhat what's going on behind all its TemplateHaskell magic. This is somewhat more

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-05 Thread John van Groningen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hey everyone; recently I've been toying around with various methods of writing >a shell and reading the academic literature on such things. The best prior art >on the subject seems to be the ESTHER shell (see >, >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-05 Thread Jed Brown
On 5 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since from my Lisp days I know that code is data, it strikes me that > one could probably somehow smuggle Haskell expressions via this route > although I am not sure this is a good way to go or even how one would > do it (to turn, say, a list of the chose

[Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-04 Thread gwern0
Hey everyone; recently I've been toying around with various methods of writing a shell and reading the academic literature on such things. The best prior art on the subject seems to be the ESTHER shell (see , , <