[Haskell-cafe] How to check if two Haskell files are the same?

[Antoine Latter]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Mauricio <briqueabraque at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to write a Haskell pretty-printer,
> using standard libraries for that. How can I
> check if the original and the pretty-printed
> versions are the same? For instance, is there
> a file generated by GHC at the compilation
> pipe that is always guaranteed to have the
> same MD5 hash when it comes from equivalent
> source?

I don't know the answers to your question, but if you're looking for
inspiration on your project you should check out the following two
packages:

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/haskell-src
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/haskell-src-exts

-Antoine