Updating External Core docs for 6.10

[Tim Chevalier]

On 8/29/08, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Could you please upload a new document, and point at the new one? I
>  think the "standard" reference for GHC Core is a link to that paper,
>  and it would be nice for the references in papers to stay valid. For
>  example The Monad Reader Issue 7, Yhc.Core paper cites Andrew Tolmach
>  2001 with a link to that document.
>

It's there already, in the GHC tree -- in docs/ext-core, there is the
LaTeX source for the original paper (updated by Andrew and myself),
and a Makefile for building a .pdf or .ps file. I also have a .pdf
copy at http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~tjc/ext-core.pdf that I think is up
to date, but it would be nice if there was some connection between the
darcs version and the version on the web, in case I or someone else
makes more changes.

>  Of course, an updated Core document would be fantastic! If you covered
>  how to generate external Core for an entire program including
>  libraries I would buy you a beer at ICFP :-)
>

That doesn't quite belong in the specification (which is meant to be
sort of an implementation-independent specification for Core), but
nonetheless, I like beer, so I'll try to put something more practical
together (perhaps on the wiki.)

Cheers,
Tim



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