8 Mar
2013
8 Mar
'13
11:26 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
What I would like to see is something like:****
HsApp (HsApp (HsApp (HsVar "foldl'") (HsVar "+")) (HsLit 0)) (HsVar "xs")* ***
We could derive ‘Show’ on everything but that would generate a LOT of new code, that would seldom be used. Also ‘Show’ doesn’t pretty-print so the result would be illegible. ****
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If plugins could be used before the conversion to Core, such a plugin might be a tidy way to workaround the issue of bloating GHC's binary size with all that Show code. This previous email thread http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2012-March/022076.htm... seems relevant, and Marlow's comment there makes it sound like a pretty easy change.