This was a fairly simple change thanks to previous work on making the Ident
type abstract and the fact that PGF.CId already uses UTF-8-encoded
ByteStrings.
One potential pitfall is that Data.ByteString.UTF8 uses the same type for
ByteStrings as Data.ByteString. I renamed ident2bs to ident2utf8 and
bsCId to utf8CId, to make it clearer that they work with UTF-8-encoded
ByteStrings.
Since both the compiler input and identifiers are now UTF-8-encoded
ByteStrings, the lexer now creates identifiers without copying any characters.
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This patch contains the following changes:
M ./src/compiler/GF/Compile/CheckGrammar.hs -3 +3
M ./src/compiler/GF/Compile/GrammarToPGF.hs -2 +2
M ./src/compiler/GF/Grammar/Binary.hs -5 +1
M ./src/compiler/GF/Grammar/Lexer.x -11 +13
M ./src/compiler/GF/Infra/Ident.hs -19 +36
M ./src/runtime/haskell/PGF.hs -1 +1
M ./src/runtime/haskell/PGF/CId.hs -2 +3
1. The default encoding is changed from Latin-1 to UTF-8.
2. Alternate encodings should be specified as "--# -coding=enc", the old
"flags coding=enc" declarations have no effect but are still checked for
consistency.
3. A transitional warning is generated for files that contain non-ASCII
characters without specifying a character encoding:
"Warning: default encoding has changed from Latin-1 to UTF-8"
4. Conversion to Unicode is now done *before* lexing. This makes it possible
to allow arbitrary Unicode characters in identifiers. But identifiers are
still stored as ByteStrings, so they are limited to Latin-1 characters
for now.
5. Lexer.hs is no longer part of the repository. We now generate the lexer
from Lexer.x with alex>=3. Some workarounds for bugs in alex-3.0 were
needed. These bugs might already be fixed in newer versions of alex, but
we should be compatible with what is shipped in the Haskell Platform.
Makefile2 specificies the dependencies accurately enough that you can use
make's support for parallel compilation. Run
make -f Makefile2 -j
to utilize all the cores in your computer to significantly speed up the
creation of Phrasebook.pgf.
+ Eliminated vairous ad-hoc coersion functions between specific monads
(IO, Err, IOE, Check) in favor of more general lifting functions
(liftIO, liftErr).
+ Generalized many basic monadic operations from specific monads to
arbitrary monads in the appropriate class (MonadIO and/or ErrorMonad),
thereby completely eliminating the need for lifting functions in lots
of places.
This can be considered a small step forward towards a cleaner
compiler API and more malleable compiler code in general.
1. No temporary files are created.
2. The output of a system command is read lazily, making it feasible to
process large or even infinite output, e.g. the following works as
expected:
? "yes" | ? "head -5" | ps -lextext
