Foreign language parsers

[Dimitry Golubovsky]

Dominic,

You wrote:

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Has anyone looked at positioning foreign language parsing modules in
the standard libs, or specifying a common framework or contract for
such modules?

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I wrote up a proposal earlier on this list how to extend Cabal to
integrate hsffig (and I believe tools like c2hs might be integrated
the same way, if not integrated already).

As for "library use", one of the future directions of hsffig
development may be adding a wrapper around its parser to represent
parsing results as a collection of items, with possiblilty to run
queries over it such as:

- get the list of constants whose name matches a regexp
- get the name of the enumeration containing the given constant

etc. This might help develop custom wrappers, like one John Goerzen
developed for openldap.

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Dimitry Golubovsky

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