On 14-May-2001, Alastair Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As the extent strings acquire more structure, I'm starting to wonder
> if encoding the information in strings is the right approach.
Yeah, I don't really like that approach much.
> What's
> the advantage of putting the information in a string?
>
> 1) All Haskell parsers will be able to read any ffi-ified code even
> if they don't support the language binding the ffi supports.
>
> But what does this achieve if the compiler backend doesn't support
> that ffi?
This is useful for tools that parse Haskell source code but which
are not compilers -- e.g. documentation generators.
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