[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is Haskell not homoiconic?
Homiconic means that the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself The main reason is that Haskell is designed as a compiled language, so the source of the programme can safely disappear at runtime. So there's no need to have a representation of it beyond the source code. I'm not sure it's relevant. In syntactically scoped Lisps, the code is mostly manipulated at compile-time by macros, rather than at run-time. And indeed, Template Haskell makes Haskell pretty much homoiconic. Stefan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is Haskell not homoiconic?
Henning Sato von Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! I am curious as to why Haskell not is homoiconic? It very nearly is. The icon for Haskell is a lower-case lambda, but the logo for these folk http://www.ualberta.ca/~cbidwell/cmb/lambda.htm is an upper-case lambda. Homiconic means that the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself Oh, dear, that renders my remark above irrelevant ;-0 The main reason is that Haskell is designed as a compiled language, so the source of the programme can safely disappear at runtime. So there's no need to have a representation of it beyond the source code. -- Jón Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
