On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Harendra Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> GHC allows choosing a main function at link time using the "-main-is" > option. I was wondering if there is a possibility to choose the main > function at runtime. Or even better, if something equivalent to "ghc -e" > is somehow possible in a linked binary executable. If not, are there any > plans to achieve something like that in future? Are there any theoretical, > practical obstacles to that? > -e is just running the compiler's bytecode backend on an expression from the command line instead of a declaration from a file. It's not related to this. I might point out that this is not at all common from any language. A limited (and Unix-specific) mechanism is to have main pick from a list of fixed operating modes based on the program's basename, which can be set in the filesystem by making a hard link to the executable with a different basename. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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