[Nix-dev] Re: Compiling Nix code

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>>   - The lexer and parser themselves can be translated from Flex/Bison to
>>     SILex [1] and ‘parse-lalr’ [2].
>
> Why would it be necessary to change the parser?  (Apart of course from changing
> the actions in the Bison parser to emit Tree-IL.)

Tree-IL has a Scheme API, so I was considering a front-end written in
Scheme.

Thanks,
Ludo’.