I've checked these all against the Darcs history using a script
(check-copyright, in my misccode collection). Anything Neil or I did as
part of our PhDs is copyright University of Kent; more recent work
belongs to us, as appropriate.
Most of this was a find-and-replace, PolyplateM -> AlloyA. But I also fixed some of the opsets and removed types that were no longer needed, and so on.
This makes sure that we catch all leftover instances of using SYB to do generic operations that we should be using Polyplate for instead. Most modules should only import Data, and possibly Typeable.
This may seem like an odd change, but it simplifies the logic a lot. I kept having problems with passes not operating on externals (e.g. functions-to-procs, adding array sizes, constant folding in array dimensions) and adding a special case every time to also process the externals was getting silly.
Putting the externals in the AST therefore made sense, but I didn't want to just add dummy bodies as this would cause them to throw up errors (e.g. in the type-checking for functions). So I turned the bodies into a Maybe type, and that has worked out well.
I also stopped storing the formals in csExternals (since they are now in csNames, and the tree), which streamlined that nicely, and stopped me having to keep them up to date.
