On 29/06/14 01:03, John Wiegley 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).
Weird, I started exactly this project yesterday! I was using
uu-parsinglib, but yours is much further ahead than mine, so I'll ditch
it and try and switch over to yours.
>
> 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.

My goal is not really parsing though, but building Nix files by working
with an AST rather than gluing a bunch of Strings together.

Keep up the good work!
- ocharles

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