Pete Kazmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As part of my learning experience, I think I want to see if I can > write a haskell pastebin that does proper syntax highlighting. > Someone in #haskell suggested that I use just a lexer because using a > parser is overkill. However, I can't make this assessment until I see > how to use the parser and the information it can supply.
For simple static highlighting, a lexical analysis is more than adequate. (You've seen http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/hscolour, right?) You only need a full parser if you want to do (e.g.) hyperlinks from a variable usage to its definition site. (You seen Programatica as well, http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~hallgren/h2h.html right?) Regards, Malcolm _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
