2008/9/5 Chaddaï Fouché <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This patch add four exported functions to GHC.hs and one to Lexer.x, > it allows one to extract a token stream from a source file. This token > stream include comments which means it contains everything needed to > recreate Haddock for example in a more independent fashion (the > current one is completely interleaved with GHC and complicate a lot of > code). > In addition, three functions in GHC.hs work on a stream of pair of > (Located Token, String), the second member corresponding to the source > of the first, one function extract this from a file and another > convert it back to a String virtually identical to the source file > (except for insignificant whitespace). With this we can support the > model used by HaRe : get the AST and the token stream, modify the AST, > propagate the modifications to the token stream, pretty-print this > token stream. > > Normally, this patch shouldn't interfere with anything in GHC (except > that there will be some very small changes to make when the new API > roll in).
Awesome! Thanks for doing this. David _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
