Nested pattern binding translates to outermost binding?

[Dave Bayer]

On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

> You could have just used -ddump-ds...  Core is way more readable than
> GHC assembly.

Great suggestion!

Core looks familiar from playing with template Haskell, is it identical?

Can one / does anyone use Core as a target for experimental toy  
languages? Aside from the "moving target" caveats...