Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-06 Thread Claus Reinke
if you want to make something like this for haskell (and i'd very much like to use it!-), there are several issues, including: 1 handling code: - going for a portable intermediate representation, such as bytecode, is most promising, especially if the code representation is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-05 Thread John van Groningen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone; recently I've been toying around with various methods of writing a shell and reading the academic literature on such things. The best prior art on the subject seems to be the ESTHER shell (see http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/689593.html,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-05 Thread Sterling Clover
In an email to the HAppS listt today, alexj described that HAppS-State provides a way to serialize function calls for replay either on-restart or on other replicated boxes. (which actually helped me to understand somewhat what's going on behind all its TemplateHaskell magic. This is somewhat more

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-05 Thread Jed Brown
On 5 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since from my Lisp days I know that code is data, it strikes me that one could probably somehow smuggle Haskell expressions via this route although I am not sure this is a good way to go or even how one would do it (to turn, say, a list of the chosen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-05 Thread gwern0
On 2007.12.05 15:56:49 +0100, John van Groningen [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled 0.7K characters: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone; recently I've been toying around with various methods of writing a shell and reading the academic literature on such things. The best prior art on the

[Haskell-cafe] Clean Dynamics and serializing code to disk

2007-12-04 Thread gwern0
Hey everyone; recently I've been toying around with various methods of writing a shell and reading the academic literature on such things. The best prior art on the subject seems to be the ESTHER shell (see http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/689593.html, http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/744494.html,