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

[Brent Yorgey]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:18:17PM +0200, Nicu Ionita wrote:
> Am 18.10.2011 18:53, schrieb 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! ....
> >
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> But is (delimited) continuation not a kind of reflection?

Perhaps, if a language has built-in intrinsic support for capturing
continuations (as does, say, Racket).  However, Haskell has no such
support.  Continuations in Haskell are "simulated" within a special
monad; there is no real reflection going on at all.

-Brent