[Haskell] ANN: haskell-src-exts 1.0.0 rc1 (aka 0.5.2)

Fellow Haskelleers, I'm pleased to report that I feel I have now completed the first milestone in my GSoC project for haskell-src-exts: Full Code Support. This means I feel ready to take that scary leap that means to drop the safe 0.x version numbering (experimental) and finally make the first stable release, version 1.0.0. But before I take that leap I want the library to be thoroughly tested, so I can with confidence say that it truly *is* stable. Therefore, I hereby announce the release on hackage of haskell-src-exts-0.5.2, which I consider (almost) a release candidate for 1.0.0. * Via cabal: cabal install haskell-src-exts * On Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src-exts-0.5.2 * Via darcs: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/haskell-src-exts I would be delighted if as many as possible would consider testing it on their code, even those of you who feel that you may not have any immediate use of the library, just to cover as much code base as possible in the hunt for potential bugs and misfeatures. Testing it is really easy, four simple steps: > cabal install haskell-src-exts [...] > ghci [...] Prelude> :m Language.Haskell.Exts Prelude Language.Haskell.Exts> parseFile "YourFileHere.(l)hs" If you get a parse error on a file that you feel should have been accepted, let me know! If the parser gives you an AST result for a file that you feel it shouldn't have accepted, let me know! Here's the bug tracker: http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-src-exts/report/1 The reason I say it is "almost" a release candidate is that while I consider the functionality to be in place, I will tidy up the exports, add a few more convenient functions to export, and add a lot of documentation, before I make the actual release. If you have a request for a particularly conventient function to add to the list of exports from the package, it's thus not too late to get it into 1.0.0. :-) What's cool in haskell-src-exts-0.5.2: ============================ * Support for all syntactic extensions supported by GHC, with two exceptions: UnicodeSyntax and NewQualifiedOperators. These will likely be added in the next feature release. Exclusive support for the newly registered XmlSyntax and RegularPatterns extensions. No support (yet) for Hugs-specific extensions (RestrictedTypeSynonyms, ExtensibleRecords, HereDocuments). No support for CPP. Also does not support the GHC-specific relaxation of layout in do-blocks, which is an unregistered extension (that should be registered!). * Support for parametrising the parsing on what extensions it should recognise. With no extensions given, it assumes Haskell98. Note that 'parseFile' will look for language pragmas in your source file to decide what extensions to use when parsing. If you want to be explicit, you can use 'parseFileWithExts', or 'parseFileWithMode' that lets you set a few other things as well. I intend to add some convenient names of extension groups, such as 'ghcExtensions' and 'glasgowExts', this is one area where I would particularly welcome suggestions. * Support for correct fixities of infix operators. By default it uses the fixities defined in the Prelude, as well as in the current document (including local let-bound fixities). Use 'parseFileWithMode' to set a different set of fixities. Language.Haskell.Exts.Fixity defines preludeFixities and baseFixities (all fixities defined in the base package), as well as combinators for defining your own sets. Much thanks to Neil Mitchell for the meat of this code. * No (known) bugs! :-) Special note for users of HaRP/HSP: I've uploaded a new version of hsx, hsx-0.5.0, that works with haskell-src-exts-0.5.2. There is one known bug in this version though, it cannot handle 'proc' entities from the Arrows extensions, I'm still considering how to fix that. In the mean time you can use it just fine, as long as your files don't contain any 'proc' blocks (which the old version couldn't handle anyway). Cheers and happy Haskelling, /Niklas