[Haskell-beginners] Haskell code as DSL

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk
> wrote:

> If you really want to go with 'translate everything' approach, what are
> you going to do about error messages?
>

That's a good point. A fully language-native Haskell environment seems to
be sought-after here, and that's a major undertaking.

TH, if anything, could blow up with even more error messages when fed
slightly off syntax. These are primary schoolchildren, yes?

To summarize, the choices available include:

1. nativize Prelude, let children grapple with English keywords

2. use sed scripts or some editor feature to translate italian .ihs to .hs
before feeding into interpreter/compiler.

3. nativize Prelude & keywords by recompiling with necessary tweaks to the
keyword table. But errors still in English tho.

4. full i18n

If GHC isn't a must, option 3 just might be a 10-minute job for hugs.


-- Kim-Ee
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