On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 06:54:27PM +0000, Niklas Broberg wrote:
I am currently co-developing a language[1] as an extension to Haskell, by means of a preprocessor to GHC. In this language we want to supply the programmer with a number of functions by default, as with the functions in the GHC Prelude. Is there some simple way to make GHC treat our own base library in the same magic way as the Prelude, so that it is always implicitly available?
Perhaps your preprocessor could just place a suitable 'import' in the generated Haskell module?
And while I'm asking about magicks; In our language we have a special function, called "page", that we require be present in "executable" modules, much like a main-function. Once again, is there some way of tweaking GHC to check this for us?
Along the same lines: put something like this in the generated module requirePage :: () requirePage = f page where f :: PageType -> () f _ = () IIRC if you use a name beginning with underscore, GHC won't warn that it is unused. Best regards, Tom -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links