[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus Lisp

[John Meacham]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:25:00PM +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> On Friday 16 September 2005 18:40, Glynn Clements wrote:
> > Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > > In Haskell, code is data too because code in the sense of
> > > imperative actions is described by IO values.  You cannot analyse
> > > them.
> >
> > And thus they are not data.
> 
> Huh? I'd say they are not /concrete/ data, but (abstract) data they 
> surely are(?)

and you are certainly free to turn them into concrete data by creating
your own data type which you then can inspect and modify and then
"interpret".

        John 

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