Wow John you weren't kidding just a few hours ago.   Good luck with the
project, was hoping to see a Quickcheck tests directory.

Aloha,
RK.


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:03 AM, John Wiegley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Since the Nix language is such a nice and simple pure functional language,
> I
> thought it would be nice to have tooling support for it in Haskell, to aid
> writing lint utilities, etc.
>
> As such, I've started a project call hnix which will implement a parser and
> evaluator for Nix in Haskell.  I have the parser working for simple
> expressions already (using either Parsec or Trifecta, it works with both).
>
> My first goal is a syntax verification and linting tool; after that to see
> I
> want to see if I can get an evaluator working for Nix programs.
>
> I have a strong feeling that a Nix evaluator can be modeled very simply as
> a
> loeb function over memoized IO actions, which is a theory I want to
> explore in
> this code.
>
>     http://github.com/jwiegley/hnix
>
> John
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