[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell-mode 2.8.0

[Alex Ott]

Re

Svein Ove Aas  at "Fri, 2 Jul 2010 15:36:06 +0200" wrote:
 SOA> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> Why do you want to rewrite the indenter in Haskell? If haskell-mode
 >> has any external dependencies such as that one, it will most likely
 >> never make it into Emacs.
 >>
 SOA> In no particular order:

 SOA> - For any given line, there are typically several possible
 SOA> indentations. We can cycle between these, but it's better to minimize
 SOA> them.

 SOA> - I want the parser to be as accurate as possible. This essentially
 SOA> means reimplementing haskell-src-exts, unless I *use*
 SOA> haskell-src-exts.

May be you can use semantic to make a parser? Semantic is already included
into emacs, and I hope, that it will make life easier. Plus we'll
automatically get lot of other functionality - name completion, navigation,
etc. 

 SOA> - In many cases, the legal indentations depend on the types of the
 SOA> expressions involved. This can be figured out, but requires part of
 SOA> the code to be running in GHC *anyway*.

 SOA> - Elisp is a lousy language compared to haskell, and I don't really
 SOA> care about getting haskell-mode into the emacs distribution. It makes
 SOA> more sense to bundle it with GHC, if it has to be bundled.

 SOA> - Most of haskell-mode will work without this helper program,
 SOA> including the three other indentation modes.



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