<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Aug 2016, at 5:58 AM, MarLinn via Haskell-Cafe <<a href="mailto:haskell-cafe@haskell.org" class="">haskell-cafe@haskell.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">So maybe you can help me here: Have you experienced any of the alternative compilers as especially easy for a newcomer to pick up and play around with? If it helps, I would be satisfied with plain Haskell2010 or even Haskell 98, although some GADT and/or TypeFamilies code to butcher would be nice, too. The ideas are mostly about larger scale structures like whole functions.</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>You might want to check out DDC [1]. It’s still in a pre-alpha state, but what it does have is a working external core language. You could write your own front end that produces System-F, then have DDC compile that. The individual compiler passes are also fairly well separated, so it’s easy to change.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""> One representative example idea is "Could it help the implementation - and does it even make sense - to view a module as just a weirdly written zero parameter type class?" As I said: crazy ideas.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">This is perfectly reasonable. I think Agda does something similar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ben.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="http://disciple.ouroborus.net/" class="">http://disciple.ouroborus.net/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>