All the info is in the .hi files On Sunday, 24 March 2013, Brent Yorgey wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 08:26:52PM -0700, Luke Evans wrote: > > I'm curious about using Haskell for metaprogramming. > > > > It looks like I can dynamically compile, load and run some Haskell with > the plugins package. Actually I've briefly tried this and it seems to work > for some simple cases at least. > > Now I would like to be able to enumerate precompiled public functions in > modules that I might use as building blocks in such dynamic compilation. > So far I'm not seeing anything that does this directly. > > Can anyone provide some pointers? > > > > If it's just not possible to introspect on compiled modules, then I > suppose I could use external metadata of my own, or even perhaps haddock > info if it exists, to attempt to generate this info. Clearly though, > that's nowhere near as good as extracting the info from something the > compiler built directly. > > I have no idea how it works, but I'm pretty sure yi does this --- > e.g. if you hit M-x (when in emacs emulation mode) and then > tab-complete, you see a list of all the available functions. Maybe > you want to take a look at the yi source code and see how they do it. > > -Brent > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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