Happy

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1 Happy

This is a parser generator in the general style of yacc. See http://www.haskell.org/happy for downloads and documentation.

1.1 Usage

happy uses a language description file to create a Haskell module that will do the parsing. Typical usage in in the second stage of a compiler, where it will be used to generate an abstract syntax tree.

1.2 Input File Structure

A happy file consists of four parts.

• The module header (Optional) : This is where you may define the module name and import other Haskell modules
• Various directives : This is used for definition of the tokens, the type of scanner to use, precedence setting.
• Grammar definition : The set of rules and actions
• The module trailer (Optional) : More Haskell code that can be used in the actions.

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