Template Haskell supports quasiquoting, which permits users to construct
program fragments by directly writing concrete syntax. A quasiquoter is
essentially a function with takes a string to a Template Haskell AST.
This module defines the QuasiQuoter
datatype, which specifies a
quasiquoter q
which can be invoked using the syntax
[q| ... string to parse ... |]
when the QuasiQuotes
language
extension is enabled, and some utility functions for manipulating
quasiquoters. Nota bene: this package does not define any parsers,
that is up to you.
Documentation
data QuasiQuoter Source #
The QuasiQuoter
type, a value q
of this type can be used
in the syntax [q| ... string to parse ...|]
. In fact, for
convenience, a QuasiQuoter
actually defines multiple quasiquoters
to be used in different splice contexts; if you are only interested
in defining a quasiquoter to be used for expressions, you would
define a QuasiQuoter
with only quoteExp
, and leave the other
fields stubbed out with errors.
QuasiQuoter | |
|
quoteFile :: QuasiQuoter -> QuasiQuoter Source #
quoteFile
takes a QuasiQuoter
and lifts it into one that read
the data out of a file. For example, suppose asmq
is an
assembly-language quoter, so that you can write [asmq| ld r1, r2 |]
as an expression. Then if you define asmq_f = quoteFile asmq
, then
the quote [asmq_f|foo.s|] will take input from file "foo.s"
instead
of the inline text
For backwards compatibility
dataToQa :: forall m a k q. (Quote m, Data a) => (Name -> k) -> (Lit -> m q) -> (k -> [m q] -> m q) -> (forall b. Data b => b -> Maybe (m q)) -> a -> m q Source #
dataToQa
is an internal utility function for constructing generic
conversion functions from types with Data
instances to various
quasi-quoting representations. See the source of dataToExpQ
and
dataToPatQ
for two example usages: mkCon
, mkLit
and appQ
are overloadable to account for different syntax for
expressions and patterns; antiQ
allows you to override type-specific
cases, a common usage is just const Nothing
, which results in
no overloading.
dataToExpQ :: (Quote m, Data a) => (forall b. Data b => b -> Maybe (m Exp)) -> a -> m Exp Source #
dataToExpQ
converts a value to a Exp
representation of the
same value, in the SYB style. It is generalized to take a function
override type-specific cases; see liftData
for a more commonly
used variant.