[Haskell-cafe] More on the random idea

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 28, 2007, at 5:49 , Andrew Coppin wrote:

> not a big goal (although I don't suppose you go out of your way to  
> make it *hard*). GHC is designed to be good at being GHC, rather  
> than good at being a collection of flexible, reusable Haskell  
> processing libraries.

Enh.  That's no reason not to *try* to be.

> I didn't see any way to access facilities other than compilation/ 
> evaluation. (E.g., what type does this have, or please desugar  
> this.) But then, I didn't look very hard.

You might want to look at Shim (http://shim.haskellco.de/trac/) ---  
it uses GHC-API to do things like asking for the type of arbitrary  
variables or expressions.

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