On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Andrew Coppin wrote: > If I'm understanding this correctly, Template Haskell is a way to > auto-generate repetative Haskell source code. >
Amongst other things, yes. It's also a way to perform repetitive transformations on code, for example. > The thing that worries me is... if you need to write repetative Haskell source > code, doesn't that mean that Haskell itself is broken in the first place? > For what're sometimes pretty picky values of broken that apply to almost any statically-typed language, yeah. Sometimes we don't know what non-broken would look like yet though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I think you mean Philippa. I believe Phillipa is the one from an alternate universe, who has a beard and programs in BASIC, using only gotos for control flow." -- Anton van Straaten on Lambda the Ultimate _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe