[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: haskell-names-0.1

[AlanKim Zimmerman]

I have a feeling the work-in-progress Haskell Refactorer using the GHC API
may be able to provide this information through its library interface.

When I have some time over the weekend I will have a look.

Alan


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Michael Sloan <mgsloan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roman: Awesome!  I'm really glad that this is ready for use!
>
> Andrew: I have a tool that's a step towards doing this.  Instead of using
> haskell suite, it uses ghci via hint to query module exports, and then uses
> TH to reify them.  This has the benefit of supporting everything that GHC
> supports, whereas there are currently some cases that haskell-src-exts
> can't parse.  There's also the issue of supporting declarations generated
> by template haskell.
>
> Here's an example of diffing some of its output:
>
>
> https://github.com/mgsloan/api-compat/blob/master/examples/template-haskell.api.diff
>
> The main reason I haven't released the tool is that I was intending to do
> structural diffs / handle renaming, so it's somewhat unfinished.  However I
> believe it's reasonably usable: instead, the output is just structured in a
> way that's reasonably amenable to diffing.
>
> -Michael
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Andrew Cowie <
> andrew at operationaldynamics.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:13 +0300, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
>> > Namely, it can do the following:
>> >
>> > *   for a module, compute its interface, i.e. the set of entities
>> >     exported by the module, together with their original names.
>> >
>> > *   for each name in the module, figure out what it refers to — whether
>> >     it's bound locally (say, by a where clause) or globally (and then
>> >     give its origin).
>>
>> Is this a step toward being able to automatically derive an API version
>> number [in the SO version sense of the word; ie, has a change happened
>> requiring a version bump?]
>>
>> AfC
>> Sydney
>>
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