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guix import hackage failures

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Message #23 received at 21829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Federico Beffa <beffa <at> ieee.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul van der Walt <paul <at> denknerd.org>
Subject: Re: guix import hackage failures
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:54:48 +0100

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> Federico Beffa <beffa <at> ieee.org> skribis:
> I wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to change the lexer to recognize line
> feeds are white space or newlines, maybe along these lines:

What you suggest is not enough. You have to tweak a couple of other
places as well.

I don't like having to mess around in token recognition code to
account for different eol styles. With my proposal I was trying to
abstract this away and make the eol style problem orthogonal to
parsing: first we convert to a "normal form" and then we operate on
it.  Should we find some files in 'mac' eol-style (in Emacs parlance)
then it would be trivial to adapt.

Could you be more explicit about what you do not like about this?

Regards,
Fede

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