Re: [Haskell-cafe] generating parens for pretty-printing code in haskell-src-exts

Neil Mitchell's HLint (http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/hlint/) warns about "extra parens" in Haskell code. So, it must have code for detecting those. I wonder if you can just insert parens liberally in a first run, and then use his algorithm to remove those that are unnecessary. The two passes can probably be fused, if you're willing to use haskell-stc-exts and do a bit of bookkeeping.. -Levent. On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Niklas Broberg wrote:

Hi Conal,

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Conal Elliott wrote:

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I'm using haskell-src-exts together with SYB for a code-rewriting project, and I'm having difficulty with parenthesization. I naïvely expected that parentheses would be absent from the abstract syntax, being removed during parsing and inserted during pretty-printing. It's easy for me to remove them myself, but harder to add them (minimally) after transformation. Rather than re-inventing the wheel, I thought I'd ask for help.

It's not at all straight-forward to properly insert minimal parentheses during pretty-printing, since "minimal" is a semantic notion. For that to work, we would need the pretty-printer to take a set of known fixities as an argument, just like the parser currently does. I'm not opposed to the idea in principle, but it's not how it currently works.

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Has anyone written automatic minimal parens insertion for haskell-src-exts?

... or we could do it this way, in a two-stage modular process which gives even more flexibility. I'm not aware of any such functionality, currently, but if it exists (or happens to come into existence) then I would be interested in including it in haskell-src-exts.

Best regards,

/Niklas

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