The BNFC-meta package

This package provides a very simple way of defining a compiler front-end for a language by embedding a BNF grammar directly into a Haskell source file. Specifically, given a quasi-quoted LBNF grammar (as used by the BNF Converter) it generates (using Template Haskell) a LALR parser and pretty pretty printer for the language. The parser is then used to automatically define a quasi-quoter for the defined language so it can also be seamlessly embedded in Haskell source code. With a simple addition to the grammar, the user can define a universal syntax for anti-quoting. This means that any grammar non-terminal can be replaced by a quoted Haskell expression of the appropriate type. A few example languages are included in the source tarball.

The LBNF grammar formalism is described thoroughly in the BNF Converter documentation: http://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com/

This library and the additions it makes to LBNF is described in a 2011 Haskell Symposium paper titled "Embedded Parser Generators": http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/cse/pmwiki.php/FP/EmbeddedParserGenerators

Properties

Versions	0.1, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.0.2, 0.1.0.3, 0.2, 0.2.0.1, 0.2.0.2, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.3, 0.3.0.1, 0.3.0.2, 0.3.0.3, 0.3.0.4, 0.3.0.5, 0.4, 0.4.0.1
Dependencies	alex-meta (≥0.3.0.5 & <0.4), array (0.4.*), base (≥4.2 & <5), happy-meta (≥0.2.0.4 & <0.3), haskell-src-meta (≥0.5 & <1.0), syb (≥0.2 & <1.0), template-haskell (≥2.4 & <2.9)
License	GPL-2
Author	Jonas Duregård
Maintainer	Jonas Duregård (jonas.duregard@chalmers.se)
Category	Development
Upload date	Tue Oct 30 09:46:15 UTC 2012
Uploaded by	JonasDuregard
Built on	ghc-7.6
Distributions	NixOS: 0.4.0.1

Modules

Language
- Language.LBNF
  - Language.LBNF.Compiletime
  - Language.LBNF.Grammar
  - Language.LBNF.Runtime

Downloads

BNFC-meta-0.4.0.1.tar.gz (Cabal source package)
package description (included in the package)