Haskell equiv of ML-Lex/ML-Yacc ?

1997-11-24 Thread Thomas Johnsson
In my imminent compiler construction course I'll be using Andrew Appel's book "Modern compiler implementation in ML", which uses ML-Lex and ML-Yacc, which are a part of the SML/NJ distribution. Now of course I'd like to encourage the use of Hugs/Haskell, especially since many of the students kn

Re: Haskell equiv of ML-Lex/ML-Yacc ?

1997-11-24 Thread Paul Hudak
Hi Thomas -- You are in luck: I am just about at the end of teaching a compiler course using Appel's ML book. About 20 students used ML, and 5 used Haskell. We provided the Haskell students with translated versions of all of Appel's code, and in addition used Lx and Happy as lexer- and parser-

Re: Haskell equiv of ML-Lex/ML-Yacc ?

1997-11-24 Thread David Barton
Thomas Johnsson writes: Q: does anyone know if there's a port of this stuff to Haskell? Note that I'm not after a nondeterministic SLR parser (Ratatosk), or some such For pedagogical reasons I'd lite the tools to be as similar as possible to Yacc/Bison/ML-Yacc, etc. I am using A