Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-16 Thread Niklas Broberg
Thanks, I'll look into all of that when I get a chance, hopefully soonish. Cheers, /Niklas On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Ben Millwood wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Lennart Augustsson > wrote: >> Please explain.  Fixity information cannot be provided unless you find >> all the i

RE: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-16 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4430 for what we are proposing for Template Haskell. S | -Original Message- | From: haskell-prime-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-prime-boun...@haskell.org] On | Behalf Of Lennart Augustsson | Sent: 16 November 2010 19:52 | To: Ben Mil

Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-16 Thread Ben Millwood
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Lennart Augustsson wrote: > Please explain.  Fixity information cannot be provided unless you find > all the imported modules and process those, so I'm not sure how > haskell-src-exts could do any better than it currently does. > The tickets I had in mind were: h

Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-16 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Please explain. Fixity information cannot be provided unless you find all the imported modules and process those, so I'm not sure how haskell-src-exts could do any better than it currently does. > > (Examples of controversies possible in haskell-src: we have the Hs > prefix on constructors everyw

Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-16 Thread Ben Millwood
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > > I am not proposing that haskell-src become part of the > standard libraries. > Right, I misunderstood here. > Neither its design, nor its suitability for use in any application, > are relevant to this proposal, except for one application:

Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-16 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Ben Millwood wrote: > As much as I like the idea of standardising a representation of > Haskell syntax, it's a highly nontrivial library and so coming to > consensus on the various design decisions involved in producing the > AST and so forth would be thorny if we started demanding that every > imp

Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

2010-11-16 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I propose that the haskell-src package be renamed haskell20nn-src for each revision Haskell 20nn of the standard, and be made an official machine-readable component of the standard. This has the following advantages: 1. It would require almost no extra work, because haskell-src already exists, an