Re: Unhealthy Haskell babel

[Immanuel Litzroth <immanuel.litzroth@gmail.com>]

I don't think org-babel is a good fit for compiled languages. If the
idea is to just take 1 snippet,
and "execute" that it means that to have a consistent whole you'd need
to put all the modules of
your program into that snippet (already impossible in Haskell, you can
have only 1 module per file),
compile that, run the resulting binary. Or org mode would have to have
some idea of what needs to
be retangled & rebuilt.
I think that using org-babel for compiled, multifile languages will
only work in very simple cases -- and
even then.. -- but will lead to problems very soon.
Immanuel

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 4:21 AM Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking into Haskell (latest ghci) again on org-mode. This
>
> #+begin_src haskell :results verbatim :exports both
> :set +m
> doubleSmallNumber x = if x > 100
>   then x
>   else x*2
> #+end_src
>
> works, but still the :set +m is necessary for it to see the whole. But this
>
> #+begin_src haskell :results verbatim :exports both
> :set +m
> factorial :: Int -> Int
> factorial 0 = 1
> factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)
> #+end_src
>
> results in this on the REPL side:
>
> Prelude> :set +m
> factorial :: Int -> Int
> factorial 0 = 1
> factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)
> "org-babel-haskell-eoe"
> Prelude>
> <interactive>:26:1-23: error:
>     • No instance for (Show (Int -> Int)) arising from a use of ‘print’
>         (maybe you haven't applied a function to enough arguments?)
>     • In a stmt of an interactive GHCi command: print it
> Prelude> Prelude> Prelude> "org-babel-haskell-eoe"
>
> which is the same behavior if I try to feed the program into the REPL one line at a time, i.e.,
>
> Prelude> factorial :: Int -> Int
>
> <interactive>:40:1-23: error:
>     • No instance for (Show (Int -> Int)) arising from a use of ‘print’
>         (maybe you haven't applied a function to enough arguments?)
>     • In a stmt of an interactive GHCi command: print it
>
> So the :set +m trick (take multiple lines) doesn't help here. Obviously, Haskell is not ready to be used with Babel. Can it be fixed? BTW, this does work with the regular ghci REPL and haskell-mode. If it helps, Standard ML, which has very similar syntax (it was Haskell's parent), works fine.
>
> LB



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