lgreg.meredith:
> Haskellians,
>
> Am i wrong in my assessment that the vast majority of reflective machinery
> is missing from Haskell? Specifically,
>
> * there is no runtime representation of type available for programmatic
> representation
> * there is no runtime representation of the type-inferencing or checking
> machinery
> * there is no runtime representation of the evaluation machinery
> * there is no runtime representation of the lexical or parsing machinery
So there is library support for all of this, in various forms:
* lexer, parser, type checker, evaluator:
ghc-api
hs-plugins
* lexer, parser, pretty printer
many parser libs (Language.Haskell, Template Haskell)
* runtime type representation
Data.Typeable
* reflecting code to data:
Data.Generics
-- Don
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