[Haskell-cafe] code generation

[z ghost]

Thanks for that! I don't know yet what would be the easiest way
to automatically build up haskell code (Template haskell's Exps or 
the HsDecls in your link).

Generating is only a part of what i need, though. I would like some
feedback from GHC about the generated code (to see if the expressions typecheck, ..)

I've been using the Hint package (which calls GHC) to typecheck 
strings http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hint
I've only managed to get it half working. Have you tried this and 
would this be the best approach?

It would  be great to get machine-readable error data back from GHC somehow (in stead of an error string). I don't if this is possible.



--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] code generation
To: zghost123 at yahoo.com
Cc: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 3:50 PM

2008/10/20 z ghost <zghost123 at yahoo.com>:
> hello, im interested in using haskell to generate code and make
> little AI applications for fun..
>
> is anyone already doing this sort of thing? it would be fun to collaborate
> with people on this.
>

I've been doing some work with Haskell code-generation in Haskell, but
I've been using the haskell-src package to do it instead of Template
Haskell, as I've been generating whole modules at a time.

I have a bunch of convenience functions that I use over here:

http://community.haskell.org/~aslatter/code/xhb/HaskellCombinators.hs

It doesn't have a very consistent API, though.  Let me know if you
have any questions about it.

-Antoine


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