Hi all, In case not everyone reads -cafe religiously, I was wondering if anyone had any interesting GHC-related SoC projects in mind (for someone with not much prior GHC experience)? I'd definitely like to apply for a project this year, and I would especially like to work on GHC.
The sum total of my GHC experience to this point is writing a small patch to add GADT support to Template Haskell, which was subsequently rewritten by SPJ before being committed. That said, hopefully I'd be able to pick things up fairly quickly -- learning about GHC is half the reason I want to apply. (The other half, of course, being to implement something cool for it.) The ideas I've managed to think of so far[1] were integrating TH functions to derive instances with the standard 'deriving' syntax, adding FFI support for C structs / Haskell tuples, and adding FFI support for a useful subset of C++ (no templates, etc.), but I'm not married to any of them (barely even dating). Not knowing GHC very well I'm also having trouble estimating whether the size/scope of various potential projects would be appropriate. Any ideas or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, ~g [1] -cafe thread: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-April/090676.html -- Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
