[ANN] BNFC 2.9.5 released

[Andreas Abel]

BNFC 2.9.5 is available at

- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/BNFC-2.9.5

- https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/releases/tag/v2.9.5
(binaries and changelog)

Feedback welcome, problems at https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/issues .

The BNF Converter (bnfc) is a wizard generating syntax trees, parser and
printer from a Labelled BNF (LBNF) grammar. It is currently able to
generate Haskell, Agda, C, C++, Java, and OCaml representations.

Supported parser generators: Happy, ocamlyacc, Menhir, ANTLR, CUP, Bison.

More information: http://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com

Changes in 2.9.5:

* C/C++/Java: escape newline etc. when printing `String` and `Char`
literals [[#449](https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/issues/449)]
* Java/ANTLR: unescape `String` and `Char` literals in parser (needs
Java ≥ 15) [[#451](https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/issues/451)]
* Java/ANTLR: fix case problem with language names like `C`
[[#455](https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/issues/455)]
* Java with line numbers: compatibility with `jflex` ≥ 1.8
[[#453](https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/issues/453)]

* Haskell/GADT: generated `ComposOp.hs` no longer needs `mtl` library
[[#438](https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/pull/438)]

* Ocaml: fixed a crash in printer with unbalanced `}`
[[#439](https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/issues/439)]
* Ocaml: lex escape sequences in `Char`
[[#452](https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/issues/452)]
* Ocaml: removed superfluous `let rec` in the printers for token categories


Cheers,
Andreas

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden

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