[Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell

[Luke Palmer]

On Dec 20, 2007 1:23 AM, Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007, at 6:25 PM, John Meacham wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:58:00PM +0300, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
> >>>>> I just want the sistem to be able to print one of these
> >>>>> expressions !
> >>>>> Its this too much to ask ?
> >>>> Yes, 'cause it means you want to embed almost all source code
> >>>> into the
> >>>> compiled program.
> >>> So ?
> >> So, I don't know any compiler of any language which does it.
> >
> > Actually, it is a pretty fundamental feature of the lisp-derived
> > languages that they can self modify their own source, and hence keep
> > their own source representation all the way through runtime.
>
> I'm not really a Lisp programmer, but don't you mean AST instead of
> source?

It's Lisp, they're basically the same thing!