[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE slot-lambda

[ducis]

So, it means that using Stratego outside of Eclipse is not that hard? Cool. I've heard of Stratego before. It's time to try again.
Thanks for the information.
At 2014-04-08 20:37:04,"Tillmann Rendel" <rendel at informatik.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Ducis asked about SugarHaskell:
>> Does it depend on Stratego/XT?
>
>SugarHaskell uses Stratego and SDF, but all necessary tools are bundled, 
>so you only need a Java virtual machine (and maybe a Java compiler, not 
>sure). Most of the tools are bundled as Java class files. Two tools 
>(sdf2table and implodePT) are bundled as a statically linked executable 
>for common platforms. On a non-common platform, you would have to 
>compile these from their C sources.
>
>There is a release of SugarHaskell on hackage:
>
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sugarhaskell
>
>The tarball consists mostly of *.jar files and native executables. 
>Looking at the timestamp, this is obviously outdated, but it should work 
>and give you a first impression. I'm sure an updated release on Hackage 
>could be provided.
>
>(Eclipse is the main platform for SugarHaskell and the other Sugar 
>languages, because we want to provide extensible syntax highlighting and 
>other editor features. The process for making the Hackage release was to 
>write a simple driver for the command-line interface that essentially 
>calls java with the right parameters, and figure out which *.jar files 
>from an Eclipse installation we need to bundle to make it work. The 
>latter was done manually, and could be done manually again for a more 
>recent SugarHaskell-in-Eclipse installation).
>
>   Tillmann