[Haskell-cafe] GHC API?

[Don Stewart]

vigalchin:
>    Hello,
>    
>          I am reading
>    [1]http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/API. Is
>    the GHC API a means of reflection Haskell? Or to put more simply what is
>    its intent?
>    

It can be used for reflection, since it exposes the interpreter at
runtime. 

I think the original intent was a reusable code base of Haskell
compiler/interpreter/type checker code, supporting all Haskell + GHC
extensions, callable from Haskell, making language research, and new
Haskell tools easier.

-- Don