[Yhc] how to get a new front-end - idea

[charles blundell]

On 08/03/07, Tom Shackell <shackell at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Please don't throw away YHC I think it's important to have various
> > implementations of Haskell around. We don't want the language to become
> > stale.
>
> I'm not suggesting throwing away Yhc, I'm simply suggesting a change of
> front end. Currently Yhc uses the nhc98 front end, but this is proving
> to be rather unsatisfactory so I suggest moving to using GHC as the
> front end.

This summer I was hoping to implement a new type checker for Yhc under
SoC. Do you think this would be a bad idea?