[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and symbolic references

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of 
> Is it possible with Haskell to call a function whose name is contained
> in a String?
> Something like:
> 
> five = call_func "add" [2, 3]
> 
> If not, perhaps this is acheivable using FFI?


Dynamic loading via plugins will do this. It was broken on Windows for
some time; not sure if it works there now.
  http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/plugins

Alistair
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