brad.larsen: > John, > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:20 PM, John A. De Goes <j...@n-brain.net> wrote: > [...] > > JVM is cross-platform, and contains sufficient typing information to > > permit one to write something like, "import foreign jvm > > java.list.Collection", and have typed access to the whole class and all of > > its methods. > [...] > > Having painless Haskell <- Java interoperability would be great. I'm > curious though: could it really be so simple as a one-line ``import > foreign jvm'' directive? I imagine the purity mismatch between > Haskell and Java would be very troublesome.
No more so than C, surely. We're used to stateful APIs. They're a pain. > With this hypothetical ``import foreign jvm'' mechanism, what would > the be type of imported Java stuff? Would it all be done in IO? > > The more I think about it, the trickier it seems. Beside the purity > mismatch of Haskell and Java, there is an OO/functional mismatch. That's more of an issue. But the prior work has been done. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
