Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 available

2017-07-25 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Samstag, den 22.07.2017, 23:03 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari: > In addition, there are a number of new features, > >  * A new, more type-safe type reflection mechanism > >  * The long-awaited Backpack module system > >  * Deriving strategies to disambiguate between GHC's various instance >    deri

Re: Frontend Plugins Proposal

2017-07-25 Thread Ben Gamari
Matthew Pickering writes: > 4 years ago Edsko proposed a patch to add support for frontend plugins > to GHC. You can read his proposal here - > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/FrontendPluginsProposal#no1 > > Something like core to core plugins but for typechecked code would be > useful for

Frontend Plugins Proposal

2017-07-25 Thread Matthew Pickering
4 years ago Edsko proposed a patch to add support for frontend plugins to GHC. You can read his proposal here - https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/FrontendPluginsProposal#no1 Something like core to core plugins but for typechecked code would be useful for tool writers. Does anyone know why the