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Bind for Expr<'T> (Quotation Monad)

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Description

After a short but interesting discussion with @eiriktsarpalis I thought it might be interesting to add a Bind implementation for Expr<'t> which allows to combine functions returning quotations.

One open question is how the quotation will be evaluated, however I did a draft some years ago which uses the splice operator to signify that there is an evaluation at that point, together with a runUntyped function which accepts any quotation evaluator and makes sure all splices are evaluated properly.

It might be worth adding a specific implementation of quotation evaluator to this library, but it has to be very efficient. At the moment I wrote that code there were no efficient implementations around.

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Research direction

Start with the linked draft and the issue's open question about quotation evaluation. Done requires an agreed Bind design for Expr<'T>, clear quotation-evaluation semantics, and an efficient evaluator implementation.

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Tech stack
fsharp
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
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Over a week
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Needs clarification
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