"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
| > Unless, you have a way to implement this directly in
| > the compiler. See Template Haskell (in GHC sources) for
| > the kind of thing that is done.
| >
|
| It is very very easy for the compiler to generate self-
| identifying type constants either all the time or as a
| compile-time option. This can even been done in a simple
| pre-compilation step if necessary.
Either we have a very different view of what "Reflection" is, or we
have a very different experience in the use and implementations of
that suff :-) I don't find Template Haskell implementation "very very
very easy". Here is an overview of Template Haskell
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/meta-haskell/index.htm
http://www.haskell.org/th/#papers
-- Gaby
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