On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:49 PM, blackbox.dev.ml <blackbox.dev...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Is there any specific reason why GHC is written in a parser GENERATOR > (Happy) and not in MONADIC PARSER COMBINATOR (like parsec)? > > Is Happy faster / handles better errors / hase some great features or > anything else? > Most probably because GHC predates practical parser combinators. Happy is just a yacc clone, really; ancient tech. And I would suspect that replacing the parser at this point could get pretty painful. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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