[Haskell-cafe] QuasiQuotation with existing parsers

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

For graphviz [1], I'm thinking of adding in some quasi-quoting support
for things like record labels [2], to make them easier to use and less
verbose to define (i.e. by using actual Dot syntax [3] for them).  If
I wanted anti-quotation support in those though, what would be the
preferable/recommended option?

* Extend the current data types to also have the anti-quotation types
(but don't export those constructors), adapt the parser accordingly
and use that (though for quasi-quotation I'd need to convert the input
String into a Text value, as that's what the existing parsers use).
However, this means there's a chance that the anti-quotation types
will leak through (and possibly cause problems when parsing real Dot
code when the anti-quotation notation is found).  This second
complication could be relaxed with a Bool flag to the parser
indicating whether or not anti-quotation should be supported, but it
still feels a bit awkward to me.

* Define new data types with anti-quotation support with new parsers
for them, and after anti-quotation is evaluated convert them to the
real data types.  Requires duplicate work, etc.

[1]: http://projects.haskell.org/graphviz/
[2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/graphviz/2999.12.0.3/doc/html/Data-GraphViz-Attributes-Complete.html#g:6
[3]: http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/shapes.html#record

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