[Haskell-cafe] Re: "automonadization" of code?

Adam Megacz megacz at cs.berkeley.edu
Fri Dec 22 13:53:51 EST 2006


Chung-chieh Shan <ccshan at post.harvard.edu> writes:
> Adam Megacz <megacz at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote in article <x3hcw1tuf0.fsf at nowhere.com> in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe:
>> Is there any work on automatic translation of code in some tiny
>> imperative language into Haskell code that uses the ST and/or IO
>> monads (or perhaps even pure functional code)?

> Is it possible to distinguish the automatic translation you have in mind
> from writing a monadic interpreter for an imperative language (which has
> been done since Moggi and Wadler)?

I suspect that you would want to introduce new binding forms.  Just a hunch.

  - a

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