[Haskell-cafe] Generating Haskell Code out of Haskell AST (GHC API)

[John Blackbox]

Thank you!
So, if I'm writing a compiler of custom language, which I want to generate
Haskell AST and further compile it with GHC, you prefer something like
haskell-src-exts
over pure GHC API?


2013/7/19 Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com>

> The package haskell-src-exts is a lot less intimidating if all you are
> trying to do is programmatically generate Haskell source:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src-exts
>
> The base types are here:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/haskell-src-exts/1.13.5/doc/html/Language-Haskell-Exts-Syntax.html#t:Module
>
> This module has some helper function for generating parts of the AST:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/haskell-src-exts/1.13.5/doc/html/Language-Haskell-Exts-Build.html
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:11 PM, John Blackbox
> <blackbox.dev.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I dont know GHC API very well, but I want to generate AST of a program
> using
> > GHC API.
> > Is there any standard method to generate Haskell code out of it?
> (something
> > like "print_this_for_me_please" function? :D
> >
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