[Haskell-cafe] haskell core definition

[Andrew Coppin]

Justin Bailey wrote:
> This paper is a bit old but still very relevant:
>
>    An External Representation for the GHC Core Language
>    http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.25.1755
>
> Click "view or download" at the bottom to see the paper. Also, I
> haven't used this utility myself yet but it pages and colorizes GHC
> core for you:
>
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ghc-core
>   

IIRC, wasn't there a plan a while back to make GHC compile *from* Core 
as well as just outputting it? Did this ever go anywhere?