NAME¶

frown - an LALR(k) parser generator for Haskell 98

SYNOPSIS¶

frown [ options ... ] file.[i]g ...

DESCRIPTION¶

-b, --backtrack

generate a backtracking parser

-c[compact|gvstack|stackless|standard], --code[=compact|gvstack|stackless|standard]

select output format

--copying

display details of copying

-d, --debug

emit debugging information

-e, --expected

pass a list of expected terminals to ‘frown’

-g, --ghc

use GHC extensions

-h, -?, --help

print this information

-i, --info

put additional information into generated file

-kn, --lookahead=n

use n tokens of lookahead

-l, --lexer

use a monadic lexer (‘get :: M Terminal’)

-n, --noinline

generate NOINLINE pragmas

-O, --optimize

optimize parser

-pn, --pagewidth=n

use the specified pagewidth n for pretty printing

--prefix=string

use the given string as prefix for frown generated variables

-s[mono|poly], --signature[=mono|poly]

add type signatures

--suffix=string

use the given string as suffix for frown generated variables

-t, --trace

insert calls to tracing routines (‘shift’, ‘reduce’ and ‘accept’)

-v, --verbose

be verbose

--version

print version information

--warranty

display details of warranty

COPYRIGHT¶

© 2002 – 2005 Ralf Hinze

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Arjan Oosting <arjanoosting@home.nl> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).