vigalchin:

Hello,

I am reading [1]http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/API. Is the GHC API a means of reflection Haskell? Or to put more simply what is its intent?

It can be used for reflection, since it exposes the interpreter at runtime. I think the original intent was a reusable code base of Haskell compiler/interpreter/type checker code, supporting all Haskell + GHC extensions, callable from Haskell, making language research, and new Haskell tools easier. -- Don