[Haskell-cafe] Using type families to define runtime representation and evaluation strategy?

[Wouter Swierstra]

On 3 Jun 2009, at 20:49, Corey O'Connor wrote:

> I'm interested in the feasibility of extending the compiler using a
> construct similar to type synonym families to determine runtime
> representation and evaluation strategy for types. Can anybody point me
> to existing work in this area?

You may also want to look at work by Paul Levy on "Call-by-push-value"  
and more recently, Noam Zeilberger (and others at CMU) on focussing.  
Both use types to control when and how evaluation happens.

Hope this helps,

   Wouter


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