15 Sep
2005
15 Sep
'05
1:36 p.m.
Hello Simon, Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 5:00:17 PM, you wrote:
But I did finish the combinator based parser for GHC. I tested it by having GHC( with combinator parser) compile itself and all the libraries. This took about 10% longer than with the original GHC, so in practice its speed is acceptable.
SM> With all due respect, a 10% increase in compile time isn't acceptable at SM> all! ability to extend/change Haskell syntax will be very interesting. i will be glad to see it in some Haskell compiler, at least as alternative front-end. for example, this give us ability to implement automatic lifting with `borrow` keyword, dicussed now in Haskell ML -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com