[Haskell-cafe] Nano-Languages

[John D. Earle]

Stefan, I managed to look at the paper and yeah you may be onto something. I 
am certainly open to ideas. Looks promising. There needs to be a standard 
way to extend the language without having to concern oneself with everything 
that goes under the hood. There is certainly an interest in this. It is like 
what everyone wants for Christmas.

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From: "Stefan Holdermans" <stefan at cs.uu.nl>
Sent: 09 Wednesday December 2009 1536
To: "John D. Earle" <JohnDEarle at cox.net>
Cc: "Haskell Cafe" <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Nano-Languages

> John,
>
>> It might be better to go about it in a fashion similar to how one  would 
>> use Haskell to create a new language using Happy, but instead  of making 
>> a full fledged language create a language that makes only  minor 
>> adjustments to the official language where most of the  original source 
>> code and command line options are copied verbatim  with a handful of 
>> things caught such as the Richard O'Keefe newtype,  a nano-language if 
>> you will. Actually I have known about this  possibility for years. There 
>> is always something you would like to  change about whatever language you 
>> are working with and so I have  put thought into it.
>
> What about¯syntax macros? 
> http://people.cs.uu.nl/arthurb/data/Macros/Manual.pdf
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Stefan