[Haskell-cafe] More on the random idea

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:14 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:

> > You looked at the source to GHCi itself I presume? It uses the GHC API,
> > so it's a good place to start with building a variant of GHCi that uses
> > the GHC API :-)
> >   
> 
> No. Actually, as per the wiki, I was looking at the source code to the 
> GHC API. (Apparently there isn't even any Haddock docs, despite the 
> requisit comments existing in the source...)

Yes, it'd be nice to have haddock docs for it.

> I suppose I could have looked at the source for GHCi - but again I would 
> imagine it's littered with error checking and other user-friendliness, 
> rather than being written to be clearly readable by beginner hackers. ;-)

I suppose that's probably right. A minimal read-eval loop as a way of
seeing how to use the ghc api would be nice.

> (Also... presumably I'd have to download some giant tarball and work out 
> how to open it. And then find the source code for GHCi amoungst 
> everything else.)

It's not that scary :-)

http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/compiler/ghci/


Duncan