RE: [Haskell-cafe] GHC Core still supported?

2006-10-11 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Jim, and others (I'm ccing GHC users) External Core is a feature of GHC that is lonely and unloved. External Core longs to have someone to look after it, tell it that it is a Truly Useful Feature, and keep it working. Seriously, External Core has a strong tendency to bit-rot because (so far as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC Core still supported?

2006-10-11 Thread Aaron Tomb
Hi, I was just talking yesterday with a group of other students about using the ExternalCore data type as the starting point for a project we're starting to work on with the goal of having more practice implementing various compiler components. We were also talking about the possibility