[Haskell-cafe] Re: Wikipedia on first-class object

[Cristian Baboi]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:39:51 +0200, Jonathan Cast  
<jonathanccast at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 30 Dec 2007, at 10:14 AM, Cristian Baboi wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:49:16 +0200, Jonathan Cast  
>> <jonathanccast at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29 Dec 2007, at 5:01 AM, Cristian Baboi wrote:
>>
>>>> By portable I mean: works on the same machine, with the same OS, but  
>>>> with different Haskell implementation.
>>>
>>> Ah, you can't.  But, again, what are you trying to do?  Re-compiling  
>>> your software for each implementation seems like a perfectly  
>>> reasonable thing to do, given the differences between them.
>>
>> Recompiling my software will not save a function created by the  
>> software at runtime.

> Which is a different problem than the one solved by dynamic linking.   
> Again, why do you want to do this?

I think they are not as different as you think they are.