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| author | Facundo Domínguez <facundo.dominguez@tweag.io> | 2014-01-29 12:43:03 -0200 |
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| committer | Facundo Domínguez <facundo.dominguez@tweag.io> | 2014-12-02 12:55:30 -0200 |
| commit | 79c87c039c47be0baf7a6dd33ecf5434daa1501c (patch) | |
| tree | d8d97a28d3989bf7848a5c3f8f6a4697de72fd5c /compiler/hsSyn | |
| parent | a2c0a8dd15de2023e17078fa5f421ba581b3a5fa (diff) | |
| download | haskell-wip/static-pointers.tar.gz | |
Implement -XStaticValues.wip/static-pointers
Contains contributions from Alexander Vershilov and Mathieu Boespflug.
As proposed in [1], this extension introduces a new syntactic form
`static e`, where `e :: a` can be any closed expression. The static form
produces a value of type `StaticPtr a`, which works as a reference that
programs can "dereference" to get the value of `e` back. References are
like `Ptr`s, except that they are stable across invocations of a
program.
In essence the extension collects the arguments of the static form into
a global static pointer table. The expressions can be looked up by a
fingerprint computed from the package, the module and a fresh name
given to the expression. For more details we refer to the users guide
section contained in the patch.
The extension is a contribution to the Cloud Haskell ecosystem
(distributed-process and related), and thus has the potential to foster
Haskell as a programming language for distributed systems.
The immediate improvement brought by the extension is the elimination of
remote tables from Cloud Haskell applications. Such applications contain
table fragments spread throughout multiple modules and packages.
Eliminating these fragments saves the programmer the burden required to
construct and assemble the global remote table, a verbose and
error-prone process, even with the help of Template Haskell, that
moreover pollutes the export lists of all modules.
[1] Jeff Epstein, Andrew P. Black, and Simon Peyton-Jones. Towards
Haskell in the cloud. SIGPLAN Not., 46(12):118–129, September 2011. ISSN
0362-1340.
Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/hsSyn')
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/hsSyn/Convert.lhs | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/hsSyn/HsExpr.lhs | 7 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/hsSyn/Convert.lhs b/compiler/hsSyn/Convert.lhs index 9ad594c698..896bc69622 100644 --- a/compiler/hsSyn/Convert.lhs +++ b/compiler/hsSyn/Convert.lhs @@ -673,6 +673,7 @@ cvtl e = wrapL (cvt e) cvt (RecUpdE e flds) = do { e' <- cvtl e ; flds' <- mapM cvtFld flds ; return $ RecordUpd e' (HsRecFields flds' Nothing) [] [] [] } + cvt (StaticE e) = fmap HsStatic $ cvtl e {- Note [Dropping constructors] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/compiler/hsSyn/HsExpr.lhs b/compiler/hsSyn/HsExpr.lhs index eaac719df9..b9547db9b6 100644 --- a/compiler/hsSyn/HsExpr.lhs +++ b/compiler/hsSyn/HsExpr.lhs @@ -277,6 +277,10 @@ data HsExpr id -- always has an empty stack --------------------------------------- + -- static pointers extension + | HsStatic (LHsExpr id) + + --------------------------------------- -- The following are commands, not expressions proper -- They are only used in the parsing stage and are removed -- immediately in parser.RdrHsSyn.checkCommand @@ -567,6 +571,9 @@ ppr_expr (HsQuasiQuoteE qq) = ppr qq ppr_expr (HsProc pat (L _ (HsCmdTop cmd _ _ _))) = hsep [ptext (sLit "proc"), ppr pat, ptext (sLit "->"), ppr cmd] +ppr_expr (HsStatic e) + = hsep [ptext (sLit "static"), pprParendExpr e] + ppr_expr (HsTick tickish exp) = pprTicks (ppr exp) $ ppr tickish <+> ppr exp |