Note that we've not considered EDSLs and TH.
authorMatthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:52:12 +0000 (22:52 +0100)
committerMatthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:52:12 +0000 (22:52 +0100)
Chapters/Prototype.tex

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       development.
     \stopitemize
 
-    \todo{Sidenote: No EDSL}
 
+    \placeintermezzo{}{
+      \startframedtext[width=8cm,background=box,frame=no]
+      \startalignment[center]
+        {\tfa No \small{EDSL} or Template Haskell}
+      \stopalignment
+      \blank[medium]
+
+      Note that in this consideration, embedded domain-specific
+      languages (\small{EDSL}) and Template Haskell (\small{TH})
+      approaches have not been included. As we've seen in
+      \in{section}[sec:context:fhdls], these approaches have all kinds
+      of limitations on the description language that we would like to
+      avoid.
+      \stopframedtext
+    }
     Considering that we required a prototype which should be working quickly,
     and that implementing parsers, semantic checkers and especially
     typcheckers is not exactly the core of this research (but it is lots and