On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 11:34, Simon Marlow wrote: > For the Visual Studio plugin we're going to need to talk to GHCi. We > plan to do this by designing an appropriate API for GHCi and calling it > directly; you *could* do it by talking over a pipe, but it's going to be > a lot of work (and slow). If you want to do this, please talk to us > about what API you'd like to see, and we can hopefully implement > something that will be generally useful.
I wanted something like that for a Haskell IDE I was working on (not much progress on it at the moment, but I may pick it up again). The main things I wanted was enough information to be able to implement "jump to definition". Where you select a symbol in your editor and move to where that variable/function/type/class was defined, in the same module or another module. It would also be useful to find out the module and package a symbol comes from so that an IDE could have a good stab at finding some documentation. For that, you'd want an API for wandering through the useful information in .hi files. An API corresponding to hugs/ghci's :info <name>, :browse <modname>, :type <name> would be a good start. You'd want to be able to specify which root module to load up the symbols for, optionally specifing a search path and expect it to also load up the .hi files for any imported modules. For what I wanted, the ability to evaluate/compile expressions was not necessary, just to browse through symbol information. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users