[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hs-dotnet, version 0.3.0

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Thanks Yitzchak,

I'm thinking and acting on having that available in your quiver & have 
prototyped
the ability to do so a couple of times in the past (stand-alone Haskell 
code as
fully fledged .NET classes/assemblies, both the dynamic and static kind.)

I didn't want to hold up the initial release to do this right now _and_ 
would really
like to get a better gauge at how important having that piece would be 
to users
looking to use Haskell in a .NET context.

There's only so much time it seems, but no shortage of interesting projects
to hack on :-)

cheers
--sigbjorn

On 1/15/2009 03:14, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
>   
>> the first public release of hs-dotnet is now available
>>     
>
> Fantastic accomplishment! I can only repeat dons' comment
> - this could be game-changing.
>
> Some obvious questions that come to mind:
>
> We see that it is already possible to expose a Haskell function
> to .NET as a callback. That's exciting! Can we go to the next step
> and register it as part of an assembly?
>
> Is it be possible for a running .NET app to fire
> up the GHC runtime and call into compiled Haskell?
>
> Is it possible at all for a .NET function not to have any side effects?
> If so, is there any way to label it as such and then call it
> from Haskell outside of the IO monad?
>
> Thanks,
> Yitz
>