[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: ANN: Haddock version 2.1.0

[David Waern]

2008/5/9 Claus Reinke <claus.reinke at talk21.com>:
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>
> > Ah, I didn't think about the GHC options that change the lexical
> > syntax. You're right, using the GHC lexer should be easier.
> >
>
>  and, if you do that, you could also make the GHC lexer
>  squirrel away the comments (including pragmas, if they aren't
>  already in the AST) someplace safe, indexed by, or at least annotated with,
> their source locations, and make this comment/
>  pragma storage available via the GHC API. (1a)
>
>  then, we'd need a way to merge those comments and pragmas
>  back into the output during pretty printing, and we'd have made
>  the first small step towards source-to-source transformations: making code
> survive semantically intact over (pretty . parse). (1b)
>
>  that would still not quite fullfill the GHC API comment ticket (*),
>  but that was only a quick sketch, not a definite design. it might be
> sufficient to let each GHC API client do its own search to associate bits of
> comment/pragma storage with bits of AST.
>  if i understand you correctly, you are going to do (1a), so
>  if you could add that to the GHC API, we'd only need (1b)
>  to go from useable-for-analysis-and-extraction to
> useable-for-transformation.
>
>  is that going to be a problem?

I'll have a look to see if doing 1a) is possible without too much
work. And then if I actually implement something, adding it to the GHC
API shouldn't be a problem.

David