On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Ben Franksen > > But isn't one of the advantages of an _E_DSL that we can use the host > language (Haskell) as a meta or macro language for the DSL? >
Substantially so. I've used brief examples where the EDSL syntax is basically the data declaration (perhaps with some operators overloading constructors) to demonstrate Haskell's fitness as a host language for EDSLs. This is also a credit to the expressiveness of Haskell's data declarations. /jve
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