On 05/04/2012, Grigory Sarnitskiy <sargrig...@ya.ru> wrote: > One could expect from a language that bears 'functional' as its > characteristic to be able to do everything imaginable with functions. > However, the only thing Haskell can do with functions is to apply them to > arguments and to feed them as arguments, run in parallel (run and > concatenate programs). > > Obviously, that's not all of the imaginable possibilities. One also can > rewrite programs. And write programs that rewrite programs. And write > programs that rewrite programs that rewrite the first programs and so on. > But there is no such possibility in Haskell, except for introducing a DSL. > > Note, that the reflectivity is important.
For x86 machine: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hdis86 Truly, I often wish to be able to pattern match on functions myself. Alas, the function is not an algebraic data type. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
