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Remove redundant hi-boot files
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Make Template Haskell into the HEAD
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This massive commit transfers to the HEAD all the stuff that
Simon and Tim have been doing on Template Haskell. The
meta-haskell-branch is no more!
WARNING: make sure that you
* Update your links if you are using link trees.
Some modules have been added, some have gone away.
* Do 'make clean' in all library trees.
The interface file format has changed, and you can
get strange panics (sadly) if GHC tries to read old interface files:
e.g. ghc-5.05: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 5.05):
Binary.get(TyClDecl): ForeignType
* You need to recompile the rts too; Linker.c has changed
However the libraries are almost unaltered; just a tiny change in
Base, and to the exports in Prelude.
NOTE: so far as TH itself is concerned, expression splices work
fine, but declaration splices are not complete.
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The main change
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The main structural change: renaming and typechecking have to be
interleaved, because we can't rename stuff after a declaration splice
until after we've typechecked the stuff before (and the splice
itself).
* Combine the renamer and typecheker monads into one
(TcRnMonad, TcRnTypes)
These two replace TcMonad and RnMonad
* Give them a single 'driver' (TcRnDriver). This driver
replaces TcModule.lhs and Rename.lhs
* The haskell-src library package has a module
Language/Haskell/THSyntax
which defines the Haskell data type seen by the TH programmer.
* New modules:
hsSyn/Convert.hs converts THSyntax -> HsSyn
deSugar/DsMeta.hs converts HsSyn -> THSyntax
* New module typecheck/TcSplice type-checks Template Haskell splices.
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Linking stuff
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* ByteCodeLink has been split into
ByteCodeLink (which links)
ByteCodeAsm (which assembles)
* New module ghci/ObjLink is the object-code linker.
* compMan/CmLink is removed entirely (was out of place)
Ditto CmTypes (which was tiny)
* Linker.c initialises the linker when it is first used (no need to call
initLinker any more). Template Haskell makes it harder to know when
and whether to initialise the linker.
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Gathering the LIE in the type checker
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* Instead of explicitly gathering constraints in the LIE
tcExpr :: RenamedExpr -> TcM (TypecheckedExpr, LIE)
we now dump the constraints into a mutable varabiable carried
by the monad, so we get
tcExpr :: RenamedExpr -> TcM TypecheckedExpr
Much less clutter in the code, and more efficient too.
(Originally suggested by Mark Shields.)
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Remove "SysNames"
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Because the renamer and the type checker were entirely separate,
we had to carry some rather tiresome implicit binders (or "SysNames")
along inside some of the HsDecl data structures. They were both
tiresome and fragile.
Now that the typechecker and renamer are more intimately coupled,
we can eliminate SysNames (well, mostly... default methods still
carry something similar).
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Clean up HsPat
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One big clean up is this: instead of having two HsPat types (InPat and
OutPat), they are now combined into one. This is more consistent with
the way that HsExpr etc is handled; there are some 'Out' constructors
for the type checker output.
So:
HsPat.InPat --> HsPat.Pat
HsPat.OutPat --> HsPat.Pat
No 'pat' type parameter in HsExpr, HsBinds, etc
Constructor patterns are nicer now: they use
HsPat.HsConDetails
for the three cases of constructor patterns:
prefix, infix, and record-bindings
The *same* data type HsConDetails is used in the type
declaration of the data type (HsDecls.TyData)
Lots of associated clean-up operations here and there. Less code.
Everything is wonderful.
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Remove the interface file parser, and move .hi-boot parsing into the
main parser. The syntax of .hi-boot files is now greatly improved in
terms of readability; here's an example:
module M where
data T
f :: T -> GHC.Base.Int
note that
(a) layout can be used
(b) there's no explcit export list; everything declared
is implicitly exported
(c) Z-encoding of names is no longer required
(d) Any identifier not declared in the current module must
still be quailified with the module which originally
defined it (eg. GHC.Base.Int above).
We'd like to relax (d), but that will come later.
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Switch over to the new hierarchical libraries
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This commit reorganises our libraries to use the new hierarchical
module namespace extension.
The basic story is this:
- fptools/libraries contains the new hierarchical libraries.
Everything in here is "clean", i.e. most deprecated stuff has
been removed.
- fptools/libraries/base is the new base package
(replacing "std") and contains roughly what was previously
in std, lang, and concurrent, minus deprecated stuff.
Things that are *not allowed* in libraries/base include:
Addr, ForeignObj, ByteArray, MutableByteArray,
_casm_, _ccall_, ``'', PrimIO
For ByteArrays and MutableByteArrays we use UArray and
STUArray/IOUArray respectively now.
Modules previously called PrelFoo are now under
fptools/libraries/GHC. eg. PrelBase is now GHC.Base.
- fptools/libraries/haskell98 provides the Haskell 98 std.
libraries (Char, IO, Numeric etc.) as a package. This
package is enabled by default.
- fptools/libraries/network is a rearranged version of
the existing net package (the old package net is still
available; see below).
- Other packages will migrate to fptools/libraries in
due course.
NB. you need to checkout fptools/libraries as well as
fptools/hslibs now. The nightly build scripts will need to be
tweaked.
- fptools/hslibs still contains (almost) the same stuff as before.
Where libraries have moved into the new hierarchy, the hslibs
version contains a "stub" that just re-exports the new version.
The idea is that code will gradually migrate from fptools/hslibs
into fptools/libraries as it gets cleaned up, and in a version or
two we can remove the old packages altogether.
- I've taken the opportunity to make some changes to the build
system, ripping out the old hslibs Makefile stuff from
mk/target.mk; the new package building Makefile code is in
mk/package.mk (auto-included from mk/target.mk).
The main improvement is that packages now register themselves at
make boot time using ghc-pkg, and the monolithic package.conf
in ghc/driver is gone.
I've updated the standard packages but haven't tested win32,
graphics, xlib, object-io, or OpenGL yet. The Makefiles in
these packages may need some further tweaks, and they'll need
pkg.conf.in files added.
- Unfortunately all this rearrangement meant I had to bump the
interface-file version and create a bunch of .hi-boot-6 files :-(
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