[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and scripting

[Limestraël]

There is the package hint, which embeds the calls to GHC API.

Quite easy to use:
Let's say your configuration file (cfg/Script.hs) contains a function
"script" that you want to get:

type ScriptFun = IO ()

loadScript :: IO ScriptFun
loadScript = do
  liftM (either (error . show) id) $ runInterpreter $ do
    path <- get searchPath
    set [searchPath := ("./cfg":path)]
    loadModules ["Script"]
    setTopLevelModules ["Script"]
    exports <- getModuleExports "Script"
    if Fun "script" `elem` exports
      then *interpret "script" (as :: ScriptFun)*
      else error "script function not found"


There is just the line I put in bold that bothers me. Can't we get the
action "script" more easily than by re-interpreting some code?

2010/5/8 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>

> On May 4, 2010, at 01:52 , Maciej Piechotka wrote:
>
>> After change of file you have to wait a long time as it compiles and
>> links with yi. On my system (1 GB of RAM taken by system + 1 GB 'free' +
>> 2 GB swaps, x86-64) it could in some situations it caused OOM. I'd
>> prefer if the code was interpreted by ghci instead of compiled by GHC in
>> this case (it should be as fast as most of the code was compiled
>> anyway).
>>
>
>
> On the one hand, this is doable with the GHC API.  On the other, that more
> or less means your program contains what amounts to a full copy of GHC.
>
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> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH
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