8 Dec
2006
8 Dec
'06
10:26 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:33:47AM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
Motivated by some recent discussion, I thought I would explore the possibilty of formalizing the haskell layout rule without the dreaded parse-error clause, as in, one that can be completly handled by the lexer.
There was some discussion about that a while ago on this list, e.g. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2006-March/000915.html and other subthreads in that thread. I'd still love to see a replacement which can be a separate phase between lexing and parsing, even if it means we need to lay some things out differently or tweak other bits of the syntax. Thanks Ian