[Haskell-cafe] Template Haskell: hiding declarations

[Liam O'Connor]

Perhaps try importing the huge module with lots of imports in another
module, and then only export the ones you want.

Cheers.
~Liam



2010/10/4 Vo Minh Thu <noteed at gmail.com>:
> 2010/10/4 Jonas Almström Duregård <jonas.duregard at chalmers.se>:
>> Hi Café,
>>
>> I'm doing some code generation with Template Haskell that results in
>> few hundred top level declaration, of which only 10 or so should
>> actually be exposed to the user (the rest are only used by generated
>> code).
>>
>> Since I cant splice stuff into the module header (i.e. into the export
>> list), I cant think of a good way to hide the internal declarations.
>> One way would be to put all the declarations into one or several
>> where-clauses, but this doesn't work very well when several functions
>> share the hidden declarations. Also I might want to hide a few data
>> types.
>>
>> Does anyone have a clever solution? Has anyone had a similar problem
>> (maybe TH needs to be extended with support for hidden declarations)?
>
> Maybe this, although I guess this is what you mean by "doesn't work very well":
>
> (a,b,c,d,...) = (a,b,c,d,...) -- those areyour top-level declarations
>  where
>  a = ...
>  b = ...
>  c = ...
>  d = ...
>  ...
>  all you other code
>
> Cheers,
> Thu
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