| Since compilers are one of the areas where everyone agrees that FPLs
| are the right tool for the job, there should be a standard pattern to
| deal with include files. Am I missing something essential?
No. Parsec is an excellent library, but I think there's a
design flaw in that you can't write your own lexer. The
"traditional" thing to do is write a lexer, which can deal
with include files, etc, as you want. Parsec would then
be presented with a list of tokens, rather than a list of
chars as at present. Doing this would also avoid the hassle
of having to remember to skip whitespace here, there and
everywhere, which cluttered up a parser I wrote recently
with parsec.
Daan, what do you say?
Other than that, Parsec is really good. I particularly liked
the error reporting stuff.
J
