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List:       haskell-cafe
Subject:    [Haskell-cafe] Re: Parsec and network data
From:       Aaron Denney <wnoise () ofb ! net>
Date:       2008-08-30 20:41:28
Message-ID: slrngbjc3d.t87.wnoise () ofb ! net
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On 2008-08-30, Johannes Waldmann <waldmann@imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:
> apfelmus wrote:
>
>> Design your language in a way that the *parse* tree does not depend
>> on import statements? I.e. Chasing imports is performed after you've
>> got an abstract syntax tree.
>
> OK, that would work.
>
> This property does not hold for Haskell,
> because you need the fixities of the operators
> (so, another language design error :-)

Yes, but you can partially parse into a list, which later gets
completely parsed.  It's not like C with its textual inclusion, and
constructs changing what counts as a type.

-- 
Aaron Denney
-><-

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