RE: Using Bison as Haskell parser generator

2002-10-17 Thread Simon Marlow
(I am currently not on this list, so replies, please cc me.) The later versions of the GNU parser generator Bison, like ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-1.75.tar.gz (959 KB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-1.75.tar.bz2 (759 KB) use the macro processing program M4 to

RE: Using Bison as Haskell parser generator

2002-10-17 Thread Martin Norbäck
tor 2002-10-17 klockan 17.32 skrev Simon Marlow: Note that Happy has support for some Haskellish things which you won't get if you use bison to generate Haskell. For example: type signatures on productions, and support for threading a monad around the parser. Another feature which I would

RE: Using Bison as Haskell parser generator

2002-10-17 Thread Hans Aberg
At 16:32 +0100 2002/10/17, Simon Marlow wrote: So I wonder if somebody may want to make an attempt to produce such skeleton files for Haskell. Bison has now not only an LALR(1) parser algorithm, but also a GLR parser, and more is to come. Note that Happy has support for some Haskellish things