Hi Throwing away Yhc would be a bit depressing - I think we can come up with a different front end with different goals and different priorities. I think we can structure it differently, and contribute something fresh in some places. It is also important for GHC to have a competitor, just to keep Haskell "Clean" - a standard with one implementation is like a democracy without voting :) However in the meantime having some way to use GHC as a front end will be a definate benefit, therefore I propose: 1) Add a GHC <-> Yhc Core translator (me, unless someone else volunteers!) 2) Make our bytecode back end work from Yhc Core (Tom) 3) Add a -ghc-front-end flag, that skips our front end (should be quite easy) With these three changes, we're not throwing away anything, and we still have a separate compiler which does not depend on GHC, but users can (if they wish) use the GHC front end. Thanks Neil