[Savannah-register-public] [task #3766] Submission of Freckle

[Simon Taylor]

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                 Summary: Submission of Freckle
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: stayl
            Submitted on: Sun 02/20/2005 at 04:13
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                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
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                 Privacy: Public
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Site Admin. Approval/Edition URL:
 <https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=7345>


###### ORIGINAL SUBMISSION DETAILS ######

System Group Name:
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  freckle


Full Name:
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  Freckle
  

Type:
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  non-GNU


License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later


Other License: 
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  GNU Lesser General Public License for the libraries and runtime.


Description:
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  Freckle is a new functional language in the ML family (strict, impure,
strongly-typed).  Syntax will be C-like.  The type system is Hindley-Milner
style, and includes higher-rank polymorphism, existential types, implicit
parameters, guarded algebraic data types, extensible record types and
extensible variant types. It does not include Haskell-style type classes. 
Freckle does not use a traditional ML-style module system.  Instead, there is
a hierarchical namespace system. Extensible records are used to bundle methods
together into structures, and functions returning records are used to emulate
functors.  Freckle also includes a more first-class handling of failure
through a light-weight, strongly-typed exception handling facility.



A high priority for Freckle is Python-style batteries-included libraries 

for web and network programming.



No source code as yet.


Other Software Required:
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  The initial implementation will be written in Mercury
<http://www.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au>.


Other Comments:
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