[Haskell-cafe] More on the random idea

[Ian Lynagh]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 08:12:13PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> 
> It's too large and complicated to use for small things. E.g., if you 
> want to just dash off a little something that needs to evaluate an 
> expression... Well, you can use the GHC API. But this is highly 
> nontrivial. You get the impression it was added later,

That's because it /was/ added later!

Concrete suggestions of changes to the API which would make it easier to
use are definitely welcomed; the GHC bug tracker is probably the best
place to put them. We'd much prefer to change the API to become easier
to use than for everyone to have to work around its idiosyncrasies.

> I don't know about Linux, but Hugs is currently hopelessly unstable on 
> Windoze.

Have you filed bugs in the hugs bug tracker?


Thanks
Ian