[Haskell-cafe] Re: Template Haskell

[Achim Schneider]

Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:

> If I'm understanding this correctly, Template Haskell is a way to 
> auto-generate repetative Haskell source code.
> 
> The thing that worries me is... if you need to write repetative
> Haskell source code, doesn't that mean that Haskell itself is broken
> in the first place?
>
If you've merely got repetitive code, use monads or even plain, simple
functions. If you've got something to generate code from, be it an .xml
or directly a direct algorithmic description of an algorithm, use
templates.

Imagine generating an HTML combinator library out of the HTML dtd or
generating specialised versions of an n-dimensional A*.

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