"Henning Sato von Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all! > > I am curious as to why Haskell not is homoiconic?
It very nearly is. The icon for Haskell is a lower-case lambda, but the logo for these folk http://www.ualberta.ca/~cbidwell/cmb/lambda.htm is an upper-case lambda. > Homiconic means that "the primary representation of programs is also a > data structure in a primitive type of the language itself" Oh, dear, that renders my remark above irrelevant ;-0 The main reason is that Haskell is designed as a compiled language, so the source of the programme can safely disappear at runtime. So there's no need to have a representation of it beyond the source code. -- Jón Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
