Thanks, I will check these out.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Philippa Cowderoy</b> <<a href="mailto:flippa@flippac.org">flippa@flippac.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Jules Jacobs wrote:<br><br>> Is that a problem because Haskell is functional,<br>> or is there be an obvious and nice way to implement an imperative scripting<br>> language?<br>><br><br>There're several. Perhaps the most obvious if your scripting language will
<br>do IO anyway is just to use IORefs, or you could use the ST monad or a map<br>from references to values (good for debugging purposes because you can<br>keep an entire trace in memory - because individual maps're immutable,
<br>they can share data so this means less memory consumed than you might<br>think).<br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:flippa@flippac.org">flippa@flippac.org</a><br><br>Performance anxiety leads to premature optimisation<br></blockquote>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Groeten,<br><br>Jules