Abstract

We describe how to embed a simple typed functional logic programming language in Haskell. The embedding is a natural extension of the Prolog embedding by Seres and Spivey [16]. To get full static typing we need to use the Haskell extensions of quantified types and the ST-monad. 1 Introduction Over the last ten to twenty years, there have been many attempts to combine the flavours of logic and functional programming [3]. Among these, the most well-known ones are the programming languages Curry [4], Escher [13], and Mercury [14]. Curry and Escher can be seen as variations on Haskell, where logic programming features are added. Mercury can be seen as an improvement of Prolog, where types and functional programming features are added. All three are completely new and autonomous languages. Defining a new programming language has as a drawback for the developer to build a new compiler, and for the user to learn a new language. A different approach which has gained a lot of popularity ...

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