Advance notice that I'd like to make Cabal depend on parsec

Isaac Dupree ml at isaac.cedarswampstudios.org
Thu Mar 21 22:51:19 CET 2013


On 03/18/2013 12:55 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> [...]  it
> is not simply the outline parser for cabal-style files that we're
> talking about. We also need parsers/pretty printers for all the various
> little types that make up the info about packages, like versions,
> package names, package ids, version constraints, module names, licenses
> etc etc.

(ignorant musing that doesn't help the general difficult of writing a 
Happy parser: )
Can they not use multiple Happy parsers generated from the same Happy file?
http://www.haskell.org/happy/doc/html/sec-multiple-parsers.html

-Isaac




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