ghc-tcplugin-api: An API for type-checker plugins.

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This library provides a streamlined monadic interface for writing GHC type-checking plugins.

Each stage in a type-checking plugin (initialisation, solving, rewriting, shutdown) has a corresponding monad, preventing operations that are only allowed in some stages to be used in the other stages. Operations that work across multiple stages are overloaded across monads using MTL-like typeclasses.

Some operations, like creating evidence for constraints or creating custom type error messages, are also simplified.

Please refer to the associated GitHub repository for example usage.

Modules

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GHC
- Builtin
  - GHC.Builtin.Names
  - GHC.Builtin.Types
    - GHC.Builtin.Types.Prim
- Core
  - GHC.Core.Make
- GHC.Plugins
- TcPlugin
  - GHC.TcPlugin.API
- Types
  - Unique
    - GHC.Types.Unique.DFM
    - GHC.Types.Unique.DSet
    - GHC.Types.Unique.FM
    - GHC.Types.Unique.Set
- Utils
  - GHC.Utils.Outputable

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Change log	changelog.md
Dependencies	array (>=0.5.3.0 && <0.6), base (>=4.13.0 && <4.23), containers (>=0.6 && <0.9), ghc (>=8.8 && <9.16), template-haskell (>=2.15 && <2.26), transformers (>=0.5 && <0.7) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Copyright	2021-2025 Sam Derbyshire
Author	Sam Derbyshire
Maintainer	Sam Derbyshire
Category	Type System, GHC, Plugin
Home page	https://github.com/sheaf/ghc-tcplugin-api
Uploaded	by sheaf at 2025-10-09T19:28:11Z
Distributions	NixOS:0.14.0.0, Stackage:0.18.1.0
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