[Yhc] Some suggested changes to Yhc.Core

[Jeremy Shaw]

Hello,

I use core for a Haskell to flash (SWF) bytecode compiler. As far as I
can tell, this change will only make my life easier.

j.

At Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:50:33 +0100,
Thomas Shackell wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been looking at compiling from Yhc.Core to Yhc bytecode (instead of 
> from PosLambda) however there are one or two changes that I would need 
> to make to Core to do this. All the changes (so-far) are limited to 
> CorePrim, which would be changed to:
> 
> data CoreFunc
>    = CoreFunc ...
>    | CorePrim {
>      coreFuncName :: CoreFuncName,     --^ name of the function in
>                                        -- haskell
>      corePrimArity :: Int,	      --^ arity of the function
>      corePrimExternal :: Maybe String, --^ name of function in C (or 
> 
>                                        -- Nothing for same as haskell)
>      corePrimConv :: String,	      --^ calling convention used
>      corePrimImport :: Bool,	      --^ true for an import, false for
>                                        -- an export
>    }
> 
> i.e. this would add 3 constructors to the CorePrim data type. This would 
> obviously break things for anyone who used a complete pattern match but 
> if you only use the selectors it would continue to work fine.
> 
> Does anyone have any objections (or suggestions for additional ideas) to 
> these changes?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom
> 
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