[Haskell-cafe] Re: Libraries for Commercial Users

[John A. De Goes]

On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Brad Larsen wrote:
> With this hypothetical ``import foreign jvm'' mechanism, what would
> the be type of imported Java stuff?  Would it all be done in IO?

Yes, that's a good first-start.

> The more I think about it, the trickier it seems.  Beside the purity
> mismatch of Haskell and Java, there is an OO/functional mismatch.

That just means an extra argument to every function and some unsafe  
downcasts; and maybe some funky mechanism for subclassing, for those  
libraries that require it (deprecated in modern OOP but not uncommon).

> Haskell / Java interop could be a huge boon; I just have trouble
> seeing how it could be so simple as a one-line import in your Haskell
> code.

I'm not saying the one-line import would give you anything more than  
purely imperative wrappers around Java code. But that's a start. It's  
"good enough". If it existed, I could transition two companies over to  
Haskell, and likely more in the future.

Regards,

John A. De Goes
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