[Haskell-cafe] Template Haskell

Philippa Cowderoy flippa at flippac.org
Tue Oct 21 19:35:37 EDT 2008


On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Ariel J. Birnbaum wrote:

> This is the part when the Lisp hackers in the audience chuckle, as one of them 
> raises a hand and asks "What happens when you grow tired of writing TH 
> boilerplate? Wait for another extension? And what after that?".
> 

To be fair, the TH boilerplate isn't an awful lot more than you'd get 
stuck with in lisp anyway. You just use TH to call more TH in that case.

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