I'm pleased to announce alex-meta and happy-meta! These libraries provide
quasi-quoter frontends and Template Haskell backends to the Alex lexer
generator and the Happy parser generator respectively. Usage is something
like this:
{-# Language QuasiQuotes #-}
module LexParse where
import Text.Alex.Quote
import Text.Happy.Quote
compileAlex [$alex|
ALEX CODE HERE
|]
compileHappy [$happy|
HAPPY CODE HERE
|]
With a bit of luck, the module will contain everything that alex and happy
would generate from these scripts. I say with a bit of luck because these
libraries haven't really been tested except on a few auto-generated
alex/happy scripts (specifically those produced by the BNF Converter).
Issues:
* The libraries depend on haskell-src-meta to parse the output of alex/happy
and translate it to TH. This means that the libraries are
only compatible with lexers and parsers that don't generate code outside the
scope of this library.
* Currently the libraries contain copies of most of the alex/happy source
code, hopefully in the future the alex/happy packages can expose a few
modules as libraries or the core of alex/happy can be factored out into a
third library (used by both these libraries and the programs).
Best regards
Jonas Duregård
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