#5247: include generics library
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Reporter: jhala | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: libraries (other)
Version: 7.0.3 | Keywords:
Testcase: | Blockedby:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Is it possible to include a generics library (e.g. SYB) in the boot
libraries?
This would make the GHC API easier to use within systems whose
dependencies are a subset of GHC's (e.g. Haddock). In particular,
various internal GHC types are instances of Data etc. and can be
accessed easily via the generics library.
(I have a variant of Haddock that can, in conjunction with HsColour,
generate mouseover types, http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/Annot/ but
it uses SYB to traverse the parsed-and-typechecked-source.)
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