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<wondering out loud>I wonder if Visual J# is a reasonable choice (already installed on my system) or is this a dangerous place to go...</wondering> J# is Microsofts version of Java, stay well clear!

I think that's what I was thinking of. I will probably try Venkman/Firefox.

The API is going to be massively improved - the ultimate idea is to write a really good bytecode library, and then have the compiler use that one, so people can easily write utilities that operate on .hbc files. The library as it stands today has a pretty printer in it, tweaking that will probably give you the Javascript output you need without too much difficulty.

I got the code from (http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/yhc/2005-November/000004.html) and it compiles, but I get a runtime pattern match error on rChar (which is the character level parser), failing on [], which I take it means that it's hitting the end of the string and trying to read another character instead of halting. I don't quite understand all of the code well enough to try to track this down, but I imagine that maybe the parser from this API might need to be updated to the newest version of the bytecode spec? It looks like the loader does a bytecode version check, and it seems to be passing.... I imagine that this parser/pretty-printer worked at some point in time, right? Details (I added a line to print the binary file as a text string): "HSBC\NUL\SOH\NUL\t\NUL\NUL\NUL\SOH\NUL\f\NUL\EOTmain\NUL\aPrelude\NUL\ESCPrelude.Num.Prelude.Integer\NUL\vfromInteger\NUL\ETXYHC\NUL\bInternal\NUL\a_apply1\NUL\SOH+\NUL\a_apply2\NUL\CANPrelude.Num.Prelude.Show\NUL\ENQprint\NUL\EOTMain\SOH\NUL\v\SOH\NUL\NUL\NULWF\NUL\NUL\EOT\NUL\tA\SOH\NUL\SOH\SOH\NUL\STXl\SOH\ETXF\SOH\NUL\SOH\SOH\NUL\ETXF\STX\NUL\EOT\NUL\ENQ\SOH\NUL\ACKl\SOH\STXF\SOH\NUL\SOH\SOH\NUL\aF\STX\NUL\EOT\NUL\ENQ\SOH\NUL\bF\SOH\NUL\SOH\SOH\NUL\tF\SOH\NUL\SOH\SOH\NUL\n\NUL\DC4\SOH%&\b12)\ENQ\STX12\ENQ\STX45\f67[\NUL" -- Module: // name = Main a.out: ./Binary.hs:63:20-38: Non-exhaustive patterns in lambda which is at the place in the code where rChar is defined. rChar :: BinaryRead Char rChar = BinaryRead (\ (x:xs) -> (x, xs)) Jared. -- jupdike@gmail.com http://www.updike.org/~jared/ reverse ")-:"