Quasiquotation - Paper discussion

From doing these activities students will

In class Announcements - 5 min (9:00 ~ 9:05)

Warm-up activity - 10 min (9:05 ~ 9:15)

Go over the answers to the homework questions

Groups and Roles

Scribes

Managers

Ambassadors

Small group discussion - 30 min (9:15 ~ 9:45)

  • What extra work must the user do when using quasiquotation as in this paper instead of quasiquotation as in the Template Haskell paper?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of implemting an Embedded DSL by providing a function compile that maps strings into host language code implementing the DSL program?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of implementing an Embedded DSL as a combinator library?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of implementing an Embedded DSL using quasiquotation vs. the approach taken in Slideshow?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of implementing a DSL using quasiquotation vs. developing a stand-alone DSL?
  • Large group discussion - 20min (9:45 ~ 10:05)

    Reconvene and go over answers.

    Cool-down activity - 10 min (10:05 ~ 10:15)

    All scribes will get together to start their wiki write up to be finished at latest a week from today.

    All managers will get together and make tickets for the course. This can include the tickets from their group discussions as mentioned above, a ticket to follow up on the scribe write up, and any other issues they think will be helpful.

    All ambassadors will get together with Matthew and Kathleen and discuss how they think the day went, how they think the pacing went, what they are looking forward to, any worries they might have about the class, etc.

    Class Dismissed

    Wednesday hw due on coding designing (instancing) a monad for a datastructure. Bring laptops to Wednesday's class if you can.