need some info/help

[Brett G. Giles]

Naturally, there are many great resources for this at www.haskell.org

Ensure you check out both Alex and Happy for the parsing and sourcing.
(note that Alex is currently being re-written, I'm not sure if the latest
public version has the new format/syntax)

Also, there are a variety of compiler help tools there such as bases for
symbol tables and so forth.

An excellent resource for anyone writing a compiler in a functional
language is

   "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML" by Andrew Appel

See http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml/ for a bit of information.

Although it is directed at ML (and Ml-lex and ml-yacc) it has great
information about the functional way of approaching this.

Finally, note that ML above is not a pure functional language. As such,
you do get to (cheat and use :) state. I have found that I've needed a
variety of state monads while doing compiler writing in Haskell.

Good luck and have fun.
> Hi
>
> I know there is a general consensus about finding out new things to use
> with Haskell but I am quite a newcomer in this field and am attempting to
> write a compiler and a runtime system in Haskell. At this
> important juncture I would like to ask for some help with some resources,
> books or links which I can look up which would help me understand the
> process better. Your help is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks :)
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Brett G. Giles
Grad Student, Formal Methods
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