I'm sorry you've been having such a torrid time, Sam.
We (the GHC developers) are acutely aware of the difficulties surrounding
the GHC API. It was discussed quite a bit at the Haskell Implementers
Meeting at last year's ICFP.
The difficulty is that there simply *is *no defined GHC API. GHC def
Thanks Simon,
Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> What we need is
>- An API for GHC that is *designed *and *actively curated*.
>...
Some may believe that the API would need to be some huge reflection of
the internal API, with maximal reuse in mind. That is a mammoth task,
but an API could also en
On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:05:34PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote:
> 1. some programming language communities have a "community build" that
>is periodically built by snapshots of the compiler. This allows
>unexpected regressions to be caught early in the dev cycle and would
>allow the author