Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell/JDK/tail-calls etc. (please vote on bug No. 6804517)

2010-09-20 Thread malcolm.wallace
Compiling haskell for the JVM has been done before, several times.  Sometimes even inside GHC.See for instance    http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=968549    http://wwwspringerlink.com/content/w81yd3fljbrevuje/    http://www.mail-archive.com/hask...@haskell.org/msg06673.htmlRegards,Malcolm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell/JDK/tail-calls etc. (please vote on bug No. 6804517)

2010-09-19 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> from time to time request for Haskell running on top of Java's VM pops >> on the haskell related mailing list and then usually dies off when >> someone mentions that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell/JDK/tail-calls etc. (please vote on bug No. 6804517)

2010-09-19 Thread Stephen Sinclair
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: > > Hello, > > from time to time request for Haskell running on top of Java's VM pops > on the haskell related mailing list and then usually dies off when > someone mentions that JDK does not have proper support for tail-calls. I > think haskell

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell/JDK/tail-calls etc. (please vote on bug No. 6804517)

2010-09-19 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, from time to time request for Haskell running on top of Java's VM pops on the haskell related mailing list and then usually dies off when someone mentions that JDK does not have proper support for tail-calls. I think haskell community might do something with this fact or at least attempt t