Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
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Language | Haskell2010 |
This module defines the lex action to lex nested comments. As is well-known this cannot be done by regular expressions (which, incidently, is probably the reason why C-comments don't nest).
When scanning nested comments we simply keep track of the nesting level, counting up for open comments and down for close comments.
Synopsis
- keepComments :: LexPredicate
- keepCommentsM :: Parser Bool
- nestedComment :: LexAction Token
- hole :: LexAction Token
- skipBlock :: String -> String -> LookAhead ()
Documentation
keepComments :: LexPredicate Source #
Should comment tokens be output?
keepCommentsM :: Parser Bool Source #
Should comment tokens be output?
nestedComment :: LexAction Token Source #
Manually lexing a block comment. Assumes an open comment has been lexed.
In the end the comment is discarded and lexToken
is called to lex a real
token.