[Haskell-cafe] Comparison Haskell, Java, C and LISP

[Stephen Tetley]

Haskell has no support for reflection whatsoever.

It can support compile time meta-programming with Template Haskell.

Reflection itself might be antagonistic to functional programming, I
suspect it is at odds with referential transparency. Most of the work
on reflection seemed based around Lisp / Scheme - Christian Queinnec's
reflective interpreter in Lisp in Small Pieces uses an awful lot of
set! ....