On 4 Nov 2010, at 17:52, Luke Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]
> wrote:
ehm. I missed something and ghc api is well documented and stable ?
There are other ways of adding Haskell as a scripting language -
bundling
ghc is not necessary.
Do tell.
Well, our solution is not entirely off-the-shelf, and possibly not to
everyone's taste or ability, but we wrote our own Haskell "compiler",
and a bunch of auto-generation tools (and FFI magic) that expose the
underlying application's APIs (written in both Haskell and C++) as
import-able modules into the scripting-Haskell layer.
When I say "we", of course I mean Lennart, who may have some previous
experience in writing Haskell compilers...
But this one is based on many freely available packages like haskell-
src-exts and uniplate, so lots of the hard work had already been done
for us. And who knows, perhaps one day enough of the other parts of a
basic compiler (name resolver, type checker, translator to core) might
appear in Hackage to make it easy for anyone to write their own
scripting engine.
Regards,
Malcolm
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