MaxBolingbroke/Talk:TypesAreCallingConventions

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Batterseapower 08:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC) Note from Max

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OK, I can add the first errata myself: I've just noticed that my section about an alternative translation for type lambdas is total nonsense because it doesn't preserve type variable binding. That's what I get for adding a new section at the last moment... Batterseapower 22:17, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

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I'm only half way through but it immediately makes me ask the question of if this helps us to express data types containing functions where we want to specify a particular data representation (ie calling convention of the function). My main example is types for monads eg:

newtype Put a = Put {
        runPut :: (a -> {-# UNPACK #-} !Buffer -> [B.ByteString])
                     -> {-# UNPACK #-} !Buffer -> [B.ByteString]
    }

See this old thread http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2007-March/012188.html

A couple typos: final bit of section 1, final sentence has a spurious '(' before the full stop. Section 6.2 Use-site arity raising, "than than".

Two thirds of the way through now... :-) The basic idea is very appealing. To make it possible (sanely) to express these calling convention optimisations we extend the language to express the before and after picture. It's like the addition of unboxed types/kinds to the intermediate language which enabled the optimiser to express the current worker wrapper transform.

You mention in the introduction "The source language, HL" without it being clear if HL is an acronym we should know or if it's just a name for a language you will be introducing later on. Though the language you introduce later however is featherweight Haskell (FH).

DuncanCoutts 10:22, 11 May 2009 (UTC)