29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
10:09 a.m.
The only thing to remember is that .hi files are written manually for a couple of things to bootstrap stuff.
Is that to resolve cyclic module dependencies al la GHC, or for some other reason?
Partially, yes, to resolve cyclic dependancies, but thats not required for the Prelude etc - only in user code. The other reason is that some files, PreludeBuiltin, exist only as .hi files - defining things like (->). I tried to break this dependance at some point, but failed miserably - I never could figure out how name resolution worked, and therefore bootstrap it with the required names. Thanks Neil