[clean-list] status of Clean

[Rinus Plasmeijer]

We intend to initially only accept Haskell 98 compatible code.
So, if the standard library is expressed in Haskell '98, it should work.

The idea is that you can easily merge Haskell '98 code with Clean code.
So one can have a Haskell module and add / call Clean code (e.g. use 
uniqueness in Haskell), and the other way around.
This may lead to syntactic conflicts in certain cases, therefore there is 
special syntax to express in the Haskell world that one uses certain Clean 
constructs, and the other way around.
Also currently one has to split up a Haskell module in an implementation and 
definition module by hand.
This is not too difficult, one can think of generating it automatically.

Since we only have limited man power and there are some other things to 
finish (like a 64 bits version),
it will take some time before we officially release this new version of 
Clean.

Greetings,

Rinus


> I am greatly looking forward to the integration of Haskell into clean.
> Given the activity of Haskell, it could well provide a huge boost for 
> Clean,
> especially if
> this exposes all the great libraries and projects in Haskell.  I just 
> wonder
> how
> much of the standard library can be ported into clean using this.
>
> I suspect the Haskell community will be interested as well, given the fact
> that
> the clean compiler appears to generate faster code than say GHC.
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