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ICFP 2019
Sun 18 - Fri 23 August 2019 Berlin, Germany
Thu 22 Aug 2019 17:20 - 17:50 at Aurora Borealis - Paper Session 4: Metaprogramming Chair(s): Christiaan Baaij

A modern compiler calculates and constructs a large amount of information about the programs it compiles. Tooling authors want to take advantage of this information in order to extend the compiler in interesting ways. Source plugins are a mechanism implemented in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) which allow inspection and modification of programs as they pass through the compilation pipeline.

This paper is about how to write source plugins. Due to their nature–they are ways to extend the compiler–at least basic knowledge about how the compiler works is critical to designing and implementing a robust and therefore successful plugin. The goal of the paper is to equip would-be plugin authors with inspiration about what kinds of plugins they should write and most importantly with the basic techniques which should be used in order to write them.

Thu 22 Aug

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16:50 - 18:15
Paper Session 4: MetaprogrammingHaskell at Aurora Borealis
Chair(s): Christiaan Baaij QBayLogic B.V.
16:50
30m
Research paper
Multi-Stage Programs in Context
Haskell
Matthew Pickering University of Bristol, Nicolas Wu Imperial College London, Csongor Kiss Imperial College London
17:20
30m
Research paper
Working with Source Plugins
Haskell
Matthew Pickering University of Bristol, Nicolas Wu Imperial College London, Boldizsár Németh Eötvös Loránd University
17:50
10m
Other
PC Chair Report
Haskell
Richard A. Eisenberg Bryn Mawr College, USA