NAME
DrIFT - a type sensitive preprocessor for Haskell
SYNOPSIS
DrIFT [ options ... ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
It extracts type declarations and directives from modules. The
directives cause rules to be fired on the parsed type declarations,
generating new code which is then appended to the bottom of the input
file. The rules are expressed as Haskell code, and it is intended that
the user can add new rules as required.
DrIFT automates instance derivation for classes that aren’t supported
by the standard compilers. In addition, instances can be produced in
separate modules to that containing the type declaration. This allows
instances to be derived for a type after the original module has been
compiled. As a bonus, simple utility functions can also be produced
from a type.
-v, --verbose
chatty output on stderr
-V, --version
show version number
-l, --list
list available derivations
-L, --noline
omit line pragmas from output
-o FILE, --output=FILE
output FILE
-s name:value, --set=name:value
set argument to value
-r, --results-only
output only results, do not include source file
-g rule, --global=rule
addition rules to apply globally
-i, --ignore
ignore directives in file, which is useful with -g
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable DERIVEPATH can be used to declare a list of
directories which contain the modules and/or interfaces that define the
additional classes you wish to derive from. DrIFT is quite fussy about
the format of the DERIVEPATH variable. The directory list should have
the following format:
* each path should be separated by ‘:’
* no space inserted anywhere
* no final ‘/’ on the end of a path
Examples of DERIVEPATH settings:
good -
/users/grad/nww/share/hugs/lib:/users/grad/nww/share/hugs/lib/hugs
bad -
/users/grad/nww/share/hugs/lib/:/users/grad/nww/share/hugs/lib/hugs/
COPYRIGHT
© 2002 – 2004 DrIFT contributors
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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SEE ALSO
drift-ghc(1), ghc(1),
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Arjan Oosting <arjanoosting@home.nl>
for the Debian system (but may be used by others).