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2015-02-14Import alex-3.1.4 from wip/alexpho5-0/+71
Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell, given a description of the tokens to be recognised in the form of regular expressions. It is similar to the tools lex and flex for C/C++. Alex takes a description of tokens based on regular expressions and generates a Haskell module containing code for scanning text efficiently. Alex is designed to be familiar to exisiting lex users, although it does depart from lex in a number of ways.