Proposal: Overloaded Quotes for Template Haskell

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Sat Dec 31 16:55:37 CET 2011


|  > And indeed there is such a function: it's called runQ.
|  >
|  > So I think what you want is already available.
|  
|  If there are no splices in the quote then, yes, that is sufficient.
|  However, as there is no function of type "forall m. Quasi m => m Exp
|  -> Q Exp", the contents of all splices must be of type "Q Exp".  Thus
|  in the expression "[| ... $( foo ) ... |]" there is no way for foo to
|  modify the state of the memoization table.

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you say here.

You started your post by saying that you want quote to be of type 
	forall m. Quasi m => m Exp
But they already are! (With a newtype wrapper.)  

Simon





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