Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org GSoC - units

2009-02-20 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Sterling Clover wrote: Thanks for the update on plugins! I look forward to trying them out from the GHC mainline at some point. I don't think that units as I envision them would need to mess with the type system directly, but could be implemented simply as a static

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org GSoC - Units

2009-02-18 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Sterling Clover wrote: Something that hit me tonight: Last GSoC gave us GHC compiler plugins. Never heard of it. Sometimes I thought it would be nice to modify or extend GHCs error messages by libraries in order make they feel more like domain specific languages. E.g.