The API in the C runtime as well as in the Haskell, Python and Java binding
is changed. Now instead of adding the literal callbacks to the concrete syntax
you need to supply them every time when you need to parse. The main reason is:
- referentially transparent API for Haskell
- when we start using memory mapped files we will not be allowed to change
anything in the grammar data structures. At that point the old API would
be impossible to use.
The following are the outcomes:
- Predef.nonExist is fully supported by both the Haskell and the C runtimes
- Predef.BIND is now an internal compiler defined token. For now
it behaves just as usual for the Haskell runtime, i.e. it generates &+.
However, the special treatment will let us to handle it properly in
the C runtime.
- This required a major change in the PGF format since both
nonExist and BIND may appear inside 'pre' and this was not supported
before.