>> Have you considered making nix-instantiate --parse-only work with --xml >> like --eval-only does? May reduce the total effort needed (if it turns >> out to be reasonably simple) > >I haven't, but it is worth considerating, indeed (but I fear that it >would require some modifications to the nix parser in order to be >useful for me). If nothing more, this could be a good way to test my >parser against the official one.
For testing it can even be useful without adding XML output: --parse-only puts some parenthesis here and there, simplifies/unifies some fancy parts of the syntax, etc. If you parse the code before and after such processing to ASTs that are not obviously equal, you have a good regression test case (after you fix the bug). _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
