Editing POV-Ray SDL project (section)

=== Suggestions ===

ChrisKuklewicz writes:  You are very close to what you want.  Making SDL valid Haskell is not quite going to happen, but you can solve many of your objections above with [http://repetae.net/~john/computer/haskell/DrIFT/ DrIFT].  It can created getters and setters and updaters.  You can probably easily extend DrIFT to handle any custom classes you write for this project.

Since the SDL is fairly fixed, some of your issues could be made more pleasant by the use of Template Haskell to create tedious top level declarations.

My suggestion is to use as many types as possible to statically enforce requirements of POV-Ray's SDL language.

Very Random and misguided suggestion: If the SDL syntax can be modeled like s-expressions or XML then some techniques from [http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html#typed-SXML HSXML] might work.

* Ah, I see. So find or make some kind of tool that takes normal SDL and processes it slightly to ''make'' it valid Haskell. (And inserts any tedious bits needed to keep the type checker happy.) That could work... [[User:MathematicalOrchid|MathematicalOrchid]] 09:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

* (There have also been endless suggestions at making the SDL an XML application. Clearly it could be done, but... it would be much harder for humans to read!)