[Haskell-beginners] interface files

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Montag 21 September 2009 15:12:45 schrieb Luca Padovani:
> I'd like to be able to extract the "interface" of a Haskell module,
> where the interface should basically contain the list of values
> defined within the module along with their type, as well as the types
> defined in the module.
>
> It seems to me like the only way of doing this is with GHC and the
> option --show-iface, which dumps the .hi file into some readable
> format. However, the dumped interface seems to contain far more
> information than the one I'm looking for (like annotations to the data
> types explaining whether they are recursive, etc.), and am not sure
> whether the grammar of this format is documented anywhere (other than
> the actual source of GHC, I mean).
>
> Is there any other convenient utility to automatically extract this
> kind of "interfaces"? [*]

haddock ?

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Luca