[forgot to add IOInterpreter, needed for testing
martin.hofmann@uni-bamberg.de**20090514094007] addfile ./src/UI/IOInterpreter.hs
hunk ./src/UI/IOInterpreter.hs 1
+
+module UI.IOInterpreter (interprete) where
+
+
+
+import Language.Haskell.Interpreter
+
+interprete :: String -> IO String
+interprete s = do 
+    r <- runInterpreter $ evalString s
+    case r of
+        Left err -> return.show $ err
+        Right r  -> return r
+
+-- observe that Interpreter () is an alias for InterpreterT IO ()
+evalString :: String -> Interpreter String
+evalString s = do
+        setImportsQ [("Prelude", Nothing)]
+        eval s
+--      say "Load SomeModule.hs"
+--      loadModules ["SomeModule.hs"]
+--      --
+--      say "Put the Prelude, Data.Map and *SomeModule in scope"
+--      say "Data.Map is qualified as M!"
+--      setTopLevelModules ["SomeModule"]
+--      setImportsQ [("Prelude", Nothing), ("Data.Map", Just "M")]
+--      --
+--      say "Now we can query the type of an expression"
+--      let expr1 = "M.singleton (f, g, h, 42)"
+--      say $ "e.g. typeOf " ++ expr1
+--      say =<< typeOf expr1
+--      --
+--      say $ "Observe that f, g and h are defined in SomeModule.hs, " ++
+--            "but f is not exported. Let's check it..."
+--      exports <- getModuleExports "SomeModule"
+--      say (show exports)
+--      --
+--      say "We can also evaluate an expression; the result will be a string"
+--      let expr2 = "length $ concat [[f,g],[h]]"
+--      say $ concat ["e.g. eval ", show expr1]
+--      a <- eval expr2
+--      say (show a)
+--      --
+--      say "Or we can interpret it as a proper, say, int value!"
+--      a_int <- interpret expr2 (as :: Int)
+--      say (show a_int)
+--      --
+--      say "This works for any monomorphic type, even for function types"
+--      let expr3 = "\\(Just x) -> succ x"
+--      say $ "e.g. we interpret " ++ expr3 ++
+--            " with type Maybe Int -> Int and apply it on Just 7"
+--      fun <- interpret expr3 (as :: Maybe Int -> Int)
+--      say . show $ fun (Just 7)
+--      --
+--      say "And sometimes we can even use the type system to infer the expected type (eg Maybe Bool -> Bool)!"
+--      bool_val <- (interpret expr3 infer `ap` (return $ Just False))
+--      say (show $ not bool_val)
+--      --
+--      say "Here we evaluate an expression of type string, that when evaluated (again) leads to a string"
+--      res <- interpret "head $ map show [\"Worked!\", \"Didn't work\"]" infer >>= flip interpret infer
+--      say res
+
+
+say :: String -> Interpreter ()
+say = liftIO . putStrLn
+
+printInterpreterError :: InterpreterError -> IO ()
+printInterpreterError e = putStrLn $ "Error while interpreting... " ++ (show e)