"Talking" with the compiler

[Simon Marlow]

> > My plan is to have an API where you can request a :load of a module
> > source (perhaps omitting the code generation steps for 
> speed) and then
> > request information about the module, by source location 
> (GHC now has
> > completely accurate source location information in its abstract
> > datatype; we did this recently in order to support the Visual Studio
> > work).  The API will most likely be a derivative of the existing
> > compilation manager interface: see 
> > ghc/compiler/compMan/CompManager.lhs.
> 
> What's about the HEP ?
> The paper at haskell.org is a little bit old, and I could not find 
> newer information about the API or it's use.

Yes, the HEP was one attempt to define the interface.  There was a
"HEP-lite" implementation at one point, I believe, but it was never
fully adopted.

Cheers,
	Simon