[Haskell-cafe] Navigating 'Strategic' programming babel

[José Pedro Magalhães]

Hi Ravi,

You might want to browse through "Comparing Libraries for Generic
Programming in Haskell":
http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/techreps/repo/CS-2008/2008-010.pdf

SYB and Uniplate are two widely used and well-maintained systems for
strategic traversals over arbitrary datatypes. There are other options,
too, but it depends on exactly what you want to do.


Cheers,
Pedro

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Ravi Sahni <ganeshsahni07 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Clearly Haskell has great possibilities in the field of
> language-processing.  And the nuisances associated with little actual
> computation buried under much data-structure navigation are well addressed
> by 'strategic-programming' systems.
>
> But now comes the rub -- there seem to be a lot of very similar systems.
>
> Any guidance on which/what/how to choose?
>
> My own current sketchy-patchy knowledge is as below. I would appreciate
> links/pointers to more substansive literature.
>
> First there was Meertens and his folks working on generic haskell
> Did that later become template haskell?
>
> That branched out into strafunski, stratego/xt.
>
> SYB is ___ not sure here: some literature suggests that its identical to
> strafunski.  Some suggests that it is strafunski done more within the
> haskell language rather than in libraries.
>
> Then there's uniplate. How does it compare to SYB?  Or is that a confused
> comparison?
>
>
>
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