Revision history for Happy

1.20.1

• Fix for building with mtl-2.3.1 (GHC 9.6)

1.20.0

• Fix #121: the -i flag produces an .info file even if the %expect pragma is violated
• Fix #131: qualify uses of Prelude functions in generated code
• Fix #161: drop fewer parse items when generating an .info file
• Introduce the %shift directive to resolve shift/reduce conflicts explicitly, useful in conjunction with %expect 0
• Remove the deprecated build configuration flag small_base

1.19.12

• Fix for building with GHC 8.8.x
• Move custom Setup preprocessing steps into a separate executable, like Alex

1.19.11

• Fix for building with GHC 8.6.x

1.19.10

• Fix polymorphic (rank-n) non-terminals
• Fix for GHC 8.8.1

1.19.9

• Fix cabal warnings
• Bump upper bounds
• Fix build with GHC 8.4.1-alpha

1.19.8

• Fix issue #94 (some grammars don't compile due to new type signatures introduced to allow overloading to be used)

1.19.7

• Fix missing test suite files in the sdist

1.19.6

• Manually generate Parser.hs using Makefile before sdist, to fix bootstrapping problems with cabal sandboxes & new-build
• Documentation fixes
• Fixed GLR support
• New option -p/--pretty prints the grammar rules (only) to a file
• Added generation of additional type signatures to enable use of typeclasses in monadic parsers.

1.19.5

• Fixes for GHC 7.10
• Code cleanups (thanks Index Int vlad.z.4096@gmail.com)

1.19.4

• Fix for GHC 7.10 (Applicative/Monad, #19, #21)

1.19.3

• Fix for GHC 7.2 (#16)

1.19.2

• Fixes for clang (XCode 5)

1.19.1

• Repackaged to build with GHC 7.7+

1.19

• Necessary changes to work with GHC 7.8

1.18.10

• Fix build with GHC 7.6

1.18.8

• Fix a packaging bug (cabal-install-0.10.2 didn't put the Happy-generated files in the sdist)

1.18.7

• Fix a bug in error handling when using %monad without %lexer

1.18.5 --- 17 Jun 2010

1.18.4 --- 23 April 2009

1.18.2 --- 5 November 2008

1.18.1 --- 14 October 2008

1.18 --- 13 October 2008

• New feature: EBNF-style paramterized macros, thanks to Iavor Diatchki.
• Works with Cabal 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6
• A few minor bugfixes

1.17 --- 22 October 2007

• Cabal 1.2 is required
• Works with upcoming GHC 6.8.1
• Fix the parE bug (poor error message for errors in the grammar)
• Some performance improvements to Happy itself

1.16 --- 8 January 2007

• Switch to a Cabal build system: you need a recent version of Cabal (1.1.6 or later). If you have GHC 6.4.2, then you need to upgrade Cabal before building Happy. GHC 6.6 is fine.

• New %error directive

• New production forms: {%% .. } and {%^ .. }

• Added Attribute Grammar support, by Robert Dockins

1.15 --- 14 January 2005

• New %expect directive
• The list of tokens passed to happyError now includes the current token (not %lexer).
• Added support for ambiguous grammars via Generalized LR parsing
• Added %partial to indicate a parser that can return a result before EOF is reached.

1.14 --- 14 April 2004

• New meta-variable $> represents the rightmost token.

• Happy's OPTIONS pragma is merged with an existing one in the grammar file, if any.

1.13 --- 19 June 2002

• Support for newer versions of GHC (>= 5.04).

• Addition of an experimental flag: --strict.

1.11 --- 25 September 2001

• Tokens no longer have a default precedence --- if you want a token to have a precedence, you have to declare it.

• Bugfix to templates for GHC on 64-bit platforms.

1.10

• Bugfixes, and minor performance improvements,

• Most of the examples work again.

1.9

• A grammar may now contain several entry points, allowing several parsers to share parts of the grammar.

• Some bugfixes.

1.8

• Parser table compression, and more efficient table encoding when used with GHC. Large grammars can now be compiled in much less time/space than before using GHC.

• Yacc-style operator precedence, thanks to patches from Hermann Oliveira Rodrigues hermann@dcc.ufmg.br and Josef Svenningsson josefs@cs.chalmers.se.

• A debug option which causes the generated parser to print tracing information at each step during parsing.

1.6

• Now written in, and generates, Haskell 98.

• Several bug fixes.

• A new option, -c, generates parsers that use GHC's unsafeCoerce# primitive to speed up parsing and cut down the binary size. The -c option can only be used with the -g (GHC extensions) option.

• Parsers generated with the -g option will compile to smaller binaries now --- some sources of parser-bloat were identified and squished.

• Happy has a new Open Source license, based on the BSD license.

• A sample Haskell parser using Happy is included.

1.5

• Many bug fixes to the error recovery support, found by experimenting with the Haskell grammar and layout.

• Happy is about 5 times faster on large examples, due to some changes in the LALR(1) algorithms.

As of version 1.5, Happy is capable of parsing full Haskell. We have a Haskell parser that uses Happy, which will shortly be part of the library collection distributed with GHC.

1.2

• Supports Haskell 1.4

• Lots of bugs fixed

• Performance: the parser generator is at least 20% faster, and generated parsers should be faster due to the replacement of a data type with a newtype.

• Simple error recovery: designed to be enough to implement the Haskell layout rule.

• Revamped monad support: the monad can now be threaded through the lexer, enabling passing of state between the parser and the lexer (handy for the Haskell layout rule), and consistent error handling.

• The %newline feature is removed, the same effect can be achieved using the new monad support.

0.9

• Happy should be much faster than before.

• Generated parsers will be 5-10% smaller.

• Happy now compiles with ghc-0.26.

• Support for monadic parsers via %monad (see the documentation).

• New syntax: previously

  f :: { <type> }
  f : ...
    | ...
    etc.
  

  can now be written

  f :: { <type> }
    : ...
    | ...
    etc.
  

  (i.e. omit the extra f. It was always ignored anyway :-)

• Miscellaneous bug fixes.