[Haskell-cafe] Re: Nano-Languages

[John D. Earle]

If one were to think of this as a project, the initial project goal might be 
a proof of concept, that such an undertaking though non-trivial may be worth 
while.

It would be desirable to act on the abstract syntax trees that result from 
the compiler parsing the source code and not the source code itself.

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From: "Vladimir Zlatanov" <vlado at dikini.net>
Sent: 10 Thursday December 2009 0745
To: "Haskell Cafe" <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Nano-Languages

>> An important question will be, Will syntax macros work out better than an
>> existing tool such as Happy?
>
> They work in scheme, and typed scheme
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/popl08-thf.pdf
> and a different hygienic mscheme is used in dylan
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/Projects/dexprs.pdf
> Both are based on pattern matching rewrite rules. Integrating a
> similar macro system in haskell should be possible, but definitely not
> trivial - how will it interact with the type system?
>
> Haskell is already halfway there, Template Haskell provides a platform
> to base them on
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10-latest/html/users_guide/template-haskell.html
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