[Haskell-cafe] Looking for maintainers or comaintainers on my Haskell projects

[Mario Blažević]

On 2017-03-16 05:26 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:
> I am glad my remark didn't scare you off, in retrospect my wording was
> perhaps a bit strong. Yes, John did a lot to make things as lazy as
> possible to avoid excessive memory consumption (cool to say that, isn't
> it). There is also some ugly type casting (unsafeCoerce) going on, since
> the parser keeps the alternatives in an array (remember that this is a
> packrat parser).

	I should be able to replace the array with a user-defined record, I 
submitted a paper to this year's ICFP demonstrating this. The only 
problem would be backward compatibility, but if there are no current 
users there's no problem.


> Unfortunately I can't spare the time to work on this ATM. But I would be
> glad if you would revive the project. PEGs offer some unique advantages
> for day-to-day parsing tasks, where you can't be bothered to write a
> separate lexer or mess around with 'try' until your harmless looking
> grammar actually accepts the source language. A fair portion of these
> can nowadays be handled nicely with regex-applicative (many file formats
> are actually regular) but now and again there is one where you need the
> power of a CFG.

	We're on the same page here. I have a solution in mind that would allow 
one to choose a parsing algorithm, from Parsec-style to Packrat to 
parallel-parsing CFGs, and apply it to a single grammar specification 
written with little syntactic overhead compared to Parsec. Some of it is 
written up, some half-implemented.