[Haskell-cafe] Re: What *is* a DSL?

[John Van Enk]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Ben Franksen

>
> But isn't one of the advantages of an _E_DSL that we can use the host
> language (Haskell) as a meta or macro language for the DSL?
>

Substantially so. I've used brief examples where the EDSL syntax is
basically the data declaration (perhaps with some operators overloading
constructors) to demonstrate Haskell's fitness as a host language for EDSLs.

This is also a credit to the expressiveness of Haskell's data declarations.

/jve
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