Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: HaRe, the Haskell Refactorer 0.6

On 29 Jun 2010, at 15:55, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

Chris BROWN writes:

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Of course, it would also be nice if HaRe could parse more than just Haskell98... :p (I know, I know, it isn't easy to change parsers,

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HaRe works over the full Haskell 98 standard. We certainly wish to move HaRe over to GHC Haskell in the future, and this is currently an ongoing effort: if you have any ideas on how to help us do this please contact us.

I talked with you and Simon Thompson about this at PEPM, and at the time you said that haskell-src-exts didn't have what you needed for HaRe. What exactly do you need in a parser for it to be suitable for HaRe?

We need static semantics, including location information and a preservation of comments. Chris.