Trees That Grow — mentioned by danharaj

Mon, 14 May 2018 23:20:53 GMT

I have a commit on GHC (a very modest one). The compiler is written in a mix of somewhat old Haskell style and new which makes sense since it's one of the oldest and largest codebases in the language. There is a constant drive to modernize it and some new techniques come out of GHC architectural changes [0]. I didn't work with the parser, mostly the constraint solver in the type checker. Still, I browsed quite a bit of code. It's one of the most pleasant and well documented codebases I've worked in in any language. In particular, the [note] system is an excellent way to embed long form…

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Trees That Grow — mentioned by danharaj