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Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]

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Re: Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]

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The other way round, a Haskell on top of a Lisp, in production today: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/

> Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.

Presentation this year on the ELS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of92m4XNgrM

Re: Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]

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I will prempt the comment that always shows up in discussions of this kind: No. Typeclasses do not replace proper macros. Go home, you are drunk.

Another argument I've often heard is that laziness largely obviates macros. Personally, I agree that this is often true—but not always, and that last bit is where Lisp-style macros would be really nice.

(^^ edited based on one of the responses below.)

Re: Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]

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I will prempt the comment that always shows up in discussions of this kind: No. Typeclasses do not replace proper macros. Go home, you are drunk.

Another argument I've often heard is that laziness largely obviates macros. Personally, I agree that this is often true—but not always, and that last bit is where Lisp-style macros would be really nice. (^^ edited based on one of the responses below.)

do you know of a post or something you could point to that elaborates that argument? interested because I'm having trouble coming up with the line of reasoning on my own
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