Parser.y rewrite with parser combinators

Vladislav Zavialov vlad.z.4096 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 22:38:15 UTC 2018


That is a very good point, thank you! I have not thought about
incremental parsing. That's something I need to research before I
start the rewrite.
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 1:06 AM Alan & Kim Zimmerman <alan.zimm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am not against this proposal,  but want to raise a possible future concern.
>
> As part of improving the haskell tooling environment I am keen on making GHC incremental, and have started a proof of concept based in the same techniques as used in the tree-sitter library.
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> This is achieved by modifying happy, and requires minimal changes to the existing Parser.y.
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> It would be unfortunate if this possibility was prevented by this rewrite.
>
> Alan


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