Re: Hello. some questions and suggestions

Hi

I'd like to work on this too. But I I'm lacking some knowledge here.

At the moment cabal is using ReadP, right?

Am I also right that ReadP is lacking user friendly error messages compared to parsec?

I like the idea of using either { ; ; } or indentation. Thus you have best of both styles, C and python such like the haskell language.

So would it be ok to use parsec instead of ReadP?

Another advantage of Parsec is that then you'd be able to install a Hugs package without passing the -98 flag every time. ReadP requires forall, but Parsec doesn't unless you use the expression parser, which I doubt Cabal would require. This will also make it easier to do a Yhc port of Cabal. Thanks Neil