[Haskell-cafe] "quoting" in Haskell

Dan Piponi dpiponi at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 13:41:30 EDT 2007


On 8/27/07, Peter Verswyvelen <bf3 at telenet.be> wrote:
> > Look at Template Haskell.
> Gee coming from C++ that was the last thing I expected "templates" to do. It seems a bit more powerful in Haskell though!

There's much in common between C++ template metaprogramming and
template Haskell - they both allow compile-time computation. On the
question of which is more 'powerful', check out the side by side
comparison here:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~taha/publications/journal/dspg04b.pdf
--
Dan


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