[xmonad] Module for evaluating Haskell expressions in xmonad

[Gwern Branwen]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Daniel Schoepe <asgaroth_ at gmx.de> wrote:
> I wrote a module that uses hint[1] to manipulate the state of xmonad
> using normal Haskell expressions during runtime(like emacs' eval
> feature), which is available here:
> http://code.haskell.org/~asgaroth/xmonad-eval
> I've put this in a separate package instead of using a contrib-module,
> since that'd introduce hint as another dependency which should be
> avoided, if someone doesn't want that feature and it should be a simpler
> solution for the user than to add another flag to xmonad-contrib.cabal.
>
> The expressions are typechecked and can return an result whose type is
> an instance of Show(The expressions to be interpreted have to be
> monomorphic and this approach seems better than having the user supply a
> type witness or such all the time). The error handler and the
> module/imports context of the expressions can be customized. It might be
> possible to somehow wreck xmonad by some expressions, but only to that
> extent to which it is already possible in xmonad.hs.
> Anyhow, I'm not sure whether this could cause any other instabilities,
> so any comments on that would be appreciated. After that I will prepare
> a package and upload it to hackage for easier installation.
>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hint

If it defaulted to False, I'm not sure a flag would be such a bad
approach. But let's see what others have to say.

If it does have no place in XMC, perhaps it might make sense to put it
in Andrea Rossato's xmonad-utils package? (It's at
http://gorgias.mine.nu/repos/xmonad-utils )

-- 
gwern