On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:44:10PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if you would be happy with the addition of a flag to > generate Haskell Core (.hcr) files in a binary format, in addition to > the text format currently generated? This would allow for easy parsing > of the resultant files, something which is currently not possible. > > Matt has kindly volunteered to implement this, if you would be happy > to accept such a patch.
Why not just change the standard textual output format to something easier to parse, like a s-expression form? Keeping one external core ppr in synch with GHC was hard enough (I'm told they failed for one of the major versions); two, where one is a custom binary format, sounds quite impractical. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
