[haskell-llvm] Beginner - Anonymous Functions

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Elliott Pace wrote:

> I'm a beginner to using Haskell-LLVM and when trying to pull together some toy functions, I came across
> the following problem. I've looked at the examples but I cannot find something that does this.
> 
> The idea is to create a curried function (and therefore an anonymous function) ala:
> 
> plus x y = x + y;
> 
> My attempt is as below:
> 
> data Mod = Mod { mplus :: Function (Word32 -> IO (Function (Word32 -> IO Word32)))
> 
>
>                }

How shall this work on the machine level? It would mean, that 'mplus' 
actually compiles a new function of type (Word32 -> IO Word32) at 
run-time.

For a real application there are certainly ways to achieve what you want 
in a different way.