Re: newbie conceptual question [from haskell list]

2001-07-25 Thread matt hellige
[Frank Atanassow [EMAIL PROTECTED]] [redirected from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]] David Hughes wrote: It seems to me that I can still use functional programming paradigm with an imperative language. How can I benefit more from a functional programming language

RE: newbie conceptual question [from haskell list]

2001-07-25 Thread D. Tweed
I'd like to respectfully disagree with some of this :-) On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Frank Atanassow wrote: These things are nice, but the more I learn about functional languages, the more I feel that they are only icing on the cake. The most important thing about functional languages is that we

embeddable haskell?

2001-07-25 Thread matt hellige
is there any haskell interpreter that allows haskell to be used as an embedded scripting language in a larger application, similar to the way python or tcl, but more especially guile (the gnu scheme implementation) are often used as extension languages? i thought i remembered hearing about some

Simple compiler question

2001-07-25 Thread Mark Carroll
Do any of the decent Haskell compilers allow you to just type function definitions at an interpreter prompt and use them in subsequent interactions, as you'd expect from a Lisp environment? I'm fed up of editing a tiny file separately and typing :reload each time, etc. Surely I'm missing

Re: Simple compiler question

2001-07-25 Thread Chris Webb
Mark Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do any of the decent Haskell compilers allow you to just type function definitions at an interpreter prompt and use them in subsequent interactions, as you'd expect from a Lisp environment? I'm fed up of editing a tiny file separately and typing :reload