[Haskell-cafe] Support for library improvement

Alejandro Serrano Mena trupill at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 06:57:57 UTC 2015


I would like to throw something to the discussion. In UHC's build system a
tool called Shuffle is used:
http://foswiki.cs.uu.nl/foswiki/Ehc/ShuffleDocumentation

It has three nice properties which I think could fit well with the problem:
- You can define variants of code with given numbers and names, and then
ask the tool to produce the output file. Something a bit better than CPP
itself.
- It understands some Haskell semantics. In particular, you can state
functions imported or exported by each chunk (see
http://foswiki.cs.uu.nl/foswiki/Ehc/ShuffleDocumentation#A_1.2_Output_specific_configuration)
and the tool takes care of building up the module declaration on top of the
file.
- It ships with a hook to integrate with Cabal (
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shuffle-0.1.3.3/docs/Distribution-Simple-Shuffle.html
).

Just my two cents.

2015-10-09 3:31 GMT+02:00 Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>:

>
>
> On Oct 8, 2015, at 1:05 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
> >
> > My loose following of the interweaved threads has led me to this same
> conclusion. Have you paid close enough attention to list exactly what these
> changes should be? I have not. But I'd love to find a general solution to
> the migration problem so that we can continue to tinker with our beloved
> language without fear of flames burning down the house.
>
> I should have been more explicit. I was more thinking of a multi-tiered
> warning system, where we decide, as a community, not to be embarrassed by
> warnings of severity less than X. When putting a DEPRECATED pragma on a
> definition, we could then give an indication of how soon we expect the
> definition to be gone.
>
> I was not thinking of the sort of "smart" behavior that Joachim wrote
> about. I want my programs to do exactly what I say -- compilers should only
> be so clever.
>
> Richard
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