External Core in binary format

[Tim Chevalier]

On 6/16/07, Aaron Tomb <atomb at soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> We've been leaning away from having a specific data type for External
> Core, and just using the existing data types in GHC (such as
> IfaceExpr and CoreExpr). So it's unclear what data type we'd add
> deriving(Show) to.

There's nothing to stop us from just adding deriving(Show) and
deriving(Read) to those existing data types, right? Of course, this
requires adding instances for a number of data types. I guess the real
problem is that someone such as Neil who wants to read in the
resulting code would have to import a lot of code from GHC.

Cheers,
Tim

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