Type checker plugins

[Carter Schonwald]

i'm looking at the record type

data TcPlugin = forall t . TcPlugin
  { init  :: TcM t
  , solve :: t -> [Ct] -> [Ct] -> TcS ([SolveResult], [Ct])
  , close :: t -> TcM ()
  }

it might be helpful to add a remark that
data Ct = ...
is defined in compiler/typechecker/TcRnTypes.lhs so folks who aren't
already intimately familiar with the constraint solver machinery in GHC can
get some wee hints about where to start digging around if they wanted to
understand the implications of the proposal :)

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Adam Gundry <adam at well-typed.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Those of you at HIW last week might have been subjected to my lightning
> talk on plugins for the GHC type checker, which should allow us to
> properly implement nifty features like units of measure or type-level
> numbers without recompiling GHC. I've written up a wiki page summarising
> the idea:
>
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Plugins/TypeChecker
>
> Feedback is very welcome, particularly if (a) you have an interesting
> use for this feature or (b) you think this is a terrible idea!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
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