Guys, I'm not following the details here, but I'm open to suggestions (patches, even) that improve the GHC API.
Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] | On Behalf Of Thomas Schilling | Sent: 11 June 2013 12:53 | To: Edsko de Vries | Cc: [email protected] | Subject: Re: Patch/feature proposal: "Source plugins" | | On 5 June 2013 13:51, Edsko de Vries <[email protected]> wrote: | > It is a little bit messy mostly because parts of the AST get lost | along the | > way: quasi-quotes in the renamer, data type declarations and other | things | > during type checking. A more ideal way, but also more time consuming, | would | > be to change this so that the renamer leaves evidence of the quasi- | quotes in | > the tree, and the type checker returns the entire tree type checked, | rather | > than just a subset. I think that ultimately this is the better | approach, at | > least for our purposes -- I'm not sure about other tools, but since | this | > would be a larger change that affects larger parts of the ghc pipeline | I'm | > not sure that I'll be able to do it. | | I needed something similar. In particular, I built a custom code | generator, but now I need a similar feature for extracting information | from a Haskell file (for IDE features). | | Since I needed to modify one-shot compilation mode I couldn't use the | GHC API. For the IDE stuff I'm using Shake as the build manager, so | that also needs a customized one-shot mode. For my current | implementation I just copied and adapted the necessary parts of | HscMain, DriverPipeline, etc. That's very messy, fragile and breaks | on every GHC release so I'd really like to see the necessary features | put into GHC. | | Do you have a working patch somewhere? | | _______________________________________________ | ghc-devs mailing list | [email protected] | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
