Dominic, You wrote: ========================== Has anyone looked at positioning foreign language parsing modules in the standard libs, or specifying a common framework or contract for such modules? ========================== I wrote up a proposal earlier on this list how to extend Cabal to integrate hsffig (and I believe tools like c2hs might be integrated the same way, if not integrated already). As for "library use", one of the future directions of hsffig development may be adding a wrapper around its parser to represent parsing results as a collection of items, with possiblilty to run queries over it such as: - get the list of constants whose name matches a regexp - get the name of the enumeration containing the given constant etc. This might help develop custom wrappers, like one John Goerzen developed for openldap. -- Dimitry Golubovsky Anywhere on the Web