30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
9:36 a.m.
| If anything I would like to see the Haskell community produce a Haskell | front end which was compiler neutral. That would facilitate many | interesting projects, and that might even help with the need to support | new extensions as they come along. There are already some candidates | floating around, but it seems they are not widely adopted. Well, "ghc -c -fext-core Foo.hs" is a Haskell front end that produces System F code ("External Core"), in a file Foo.hcr. I'm not sure whether that was what you meant. However, External Core doesn't seem to have really caught on. Only 5% said it was essential, with another 16% saying "nice to have". I'm sure there's room to improve the ExtCore route. Simon