Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:14 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
You looked at the source to GHCi itself I presume? It uses the GHC API,
so it's a good place to start with building a variant of GHCi that uses
the GHC API :-)
No. Actually, as per the wiki, I was looking at the source code to the
GHC API. (Apparently there isn't even any Haddock docs, despite the
requisit comments existing in the source...)
Yes, it'd be nice to have haddock docs for it.
I suppose I could have looked at the source for GHCi - but again I would
imagine it's littered with error checking and other user-friendliness,
rather than being written to be clearly readable by beginner hackers. ;-)
I suppose that's probably right. A minimal read-eval loop as a way of
seeing how to use the ghc api would be nice.
(Also... presumably I'd have to download some giant tarball and work out
how to open it. And then find the source code for GHCi amoungst
everything else.)
It's not that scary :-)
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/compiler/ghci/
BTW, you want to look at InteractiveUI.hs and GhciMonad.hs. The rest of the
files in that directory belong to the implementation of the bytecode compiler,
and hence are *below* the GHC API. One day we'll reorganise the sources to make
this clearer.
Cheers,
Simon
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