On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 04:23:02PM +0100, Dennis Felsing wrote:
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> Is there a way to extend GHCi without copying some of its source code?
Someone was looking at moving the ghci code into a library, which may
mean you need to copy less code, at least. I'm not sure what the status
of that is, thou
> Now I'm wondering whether the approaches I have in mind are sensible or if
> anyone can think of a better way to achieve my goals? Is there a way to extend
> GHCi without copying some of its source code? Is there a chance of having
> these
> features flow back into mainline GHCi once they are pr
Hi!
I'm currently trying to extend ghc-vis[1], a tool to visualize live data
structures in GHCi and GHC compiled programs, similar to GHCi's :print and
vacuum.
I want to show the type of a subexpression visualized in ghc-vis. As types
aren't stored in GHC they have to be reconstructed. For this I
