Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type checker for haskell-src-exts (was: Typechecking Using GHC API)

2011-12-18 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 17 December 2011 05:39, Gregory Crosswhite gcrosswh...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 17, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote: Wll... I've gotten a little bit of a different perspective on this since working at a company with very high code quality standards (at least for new code).

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type checker for haskell-src-exts (was: Typechecking Using GHC API)

2011-12-16 Thread Niklas Broberg
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Sean Leather leat...@cs.uu.nl wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:07, Niklas Broberg wrote: Envisioned: The function you ask for can definitely be written for haskell-src-exts, which I know you are currently using. I just need to complete my type checker for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type checker for haskell-src-exts (was: Typechecking Using GHC API)

2011-12-16 Thread Niklas Broberg
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas Schilling nomin...@googlemail.comwrote: What exactly are the hopes for such a type checker? I can understand it being interesting as a research project, but as a realistic tools there are two huge issues: 1. It's going to take a LOT of time to reach

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type checker for haskell-src-exts (was: Typechecking Using GHC API)

2011-12-16 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 16 December 2011 17:44, Niklas Broberg niklas.brob...@gmail.com wrote: With all due respect, the sentiments you give voice to here are a large part of what drives me to do this project in the first place. Haskell is not GHC, and I think that the very dominant position of GHC many times leads

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type checker for haskell-src-exts (was: Typechecking Using GHC API)

2011-12-16 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
On Dec 17, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote: Wll... I've gotten a little bit of a different perspective on this since working at a company with very high code quality standards (at least for new code). There is practically no observable code review happening. I'm sure Dimitrios

[Haskell-cafe] Type checker for haskell-src-exts (was: Typechecking Using GHC API)

2011-12-15 Thread Sean Leather
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:07, Niklas Broberg wrote: Envisioned: The function you ask for can definitely be written for haskell-src-exts, which I know you are currently using. I just need to complete my type checker for haskell-src-exts first. Which is not a small task, but one that has been

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type checker for haskell-src-exts (was: Typechecking Using GHC API)

2011-12-15 Thread Thomas Schilling
What exactly are the hopes for such a type checker? I can understand it being interesting as a research project, but as a realistic tools there are two huge issues: 1. It's going to take a LOT of time to reach feature parity with GHC's type checker. 2. Assuming that can be done, how is it