[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell-mode 2.8.0

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Alex Ott <alexott at gmail.com> writes:

> Re
>
> Svein Ove Aas  at "Fri, 2 Jul 2010 15:36:06 +0200" wrote:
>  SOA> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> Why do you want to rewrite the indenter in Haskell? If haskell-mode
>  >> has any external dependencies such as that one, it will most likely
>  >> never make it into Emacs.
>  >>
>  SOA> In no particular order:
>
>  SOA> - For any given line, there are typically several possible
>  SOA> indentations. We can cycle between these, but it's better to minimize
>  SOA> them.
>
>  SOA> - I want the parser to be as accurate as possible. This essentially
>  SOA> means reimplementing haskell-src-exts, unless I *use*
>  SOA> haskell-src-exts.
>
> May be you can use semantic to make a parser? Semantic is already included
> into emacs, and I hope, that it will make life easier. Plus we'll
> automatically get lot of other functionality - name completion, navigation,
> etc. 

My understanding is that semantic is more aimed at C-like languages (I
seem to recall reading a discussion a while back about someone trying to
use semantic to parse Python or something like that and failing), and as
such wouldn't work too well for Haskell.

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