Invisible wrote:
> Haskell really is a PITA to parse. I mean, think about it:
> - Whitespace is significant. (No context-free parsing here!)

I don't think "context-free" means what you think it means. Whitespace being 
significant isn't "context".

> - There are arbitrary user-defined operators, which arbitrary precedence 
> and associativity.

But they have to be defined by the user before you use them, so that doesn't 
seem hard.  Most parsers with more than half a dozen operators (I'm looking 
at you, C) have tables defining the precedence and associativity anyway.

> compared to, say, Pascal or C.)

Try Ada.

> Even so, when a user can define an operator like *&*#*|* and set it to 
> any precedence or associativity, it's not so easy to produce a parse 
> tree...

I think maybe you're doing it wrong.

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