alex: Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell

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Versions 2.1.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.7
Dependencies array, base (>=1.0 && <4.4), containers, directory [details]
License BSD3
Copyright (c) Chis Dornan, Simon Marlow
Author Chris Dornan and Simon Marlow
Maintainer Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
Stability stable
Category Development
Home page http://www.haskell.org/alex/
Bug tracker mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com
Uploaded Fri Nov 26 10:45:05 UTC 2010 by SimonMarlow
Updated Tue Dec 23 13:00:09 UTC 2014 by HerbertValerioRiedel to revision 1
Distributions Arch:3.1.7, Debian:3.1.6, Fedora:3.1.7, FreeBSD:3.1.4, LTSHaskell:3.1.7, NixOS:3.1.7, Stackage:3.1.7, Tumbleweed:3.1.7
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Readme for alex-2.3.5

		       Alex: A Lexical Analyser Generator

Alex is a Lex-like tool for generating Haskell scanners.  For complete
documentation, see the doc directory.

   http://www.haskell.org/alex/
   http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/alex

Alex is built using Cabal.  First install GHC, then:
 
  $ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
  $ runhaskell Setup.lhs build
  $ runhaskell Setup.lhs install

Alex version 2.0 has changed fairly considerably since version 1.x,
and the syntax is almost completely different.  For a detailed list of
changes, see the release notes in the documentation.

Alex is now covered by a BSD-Style licence; see the licence file in
the `doc' directory for details.

The sources are in the the `src' directory and the documentation in the `doc'
directory; various  examples are in the 'examples' subdirectory.

The source code in the 'src' and 'examples' directories is intended
for a Haskell 98 compiler with hierarchical modules.  It should work
with GHC >= 5.04.

Please report any bugs or comments to the email addresses given below.

Share and enjoy,

Chris Dornan:  cdornan@arm.com
Isaac Jones:   ijones@syntaxpolice.org
Simon Marlow:  simonmar@microsoft.com