elm.js

/*
Language: Elm
Author: Janis Voigtlaender <janis.voigtlaender@gmail.com>
Category: functional
*/

function(hljs) {
  var COMMENT = {
    variants: [
      hljs.COMMENT('--', '$'),
      hljs.COMMENT(
        '{-',
        '-}',
        {
          contains: ['self']
        }
      )
    ]
  };

  var CONSTRUCTOR = {
    className: 'type',
    begin: '\\b[A-Z][\\w\']*', // TODO: other constructors (built-in, infix).
    relevance: 0
  };

  var LIST = {
    begin: '\\(', end: '\\)',
    illegal: '"',
    contains: [
      {className: 'type', begin: '\\b[A-Z][\\w]*(\\((\\.\\.|,|\\w+)\\))?'},
      COMMENT
    ]
  };

  var RECORD = {
    begin: '{', end: '}',
    contains: LIST.contains
  };

  return {
    keywords:
      'let in if then else case of where module import exposing ' +
      'type alias as infix infixl infixr port effect command subscription',
    contains: [

      // Top-level constructions.

      {
        beginKeywords: 'port effect module', end: 'exposing',
        keywords: 'port effect module where command subscription exposing',
        contains: [LIST, COMMENT],
        illegal: '\\W\\.|;'
      },
      {
        begin: 'import', end: '$',
        keywords: 'import as exposing',
        contains: [LIST, COMMENT],
        illegal: '\\W\\.|;'
      },
      {
        begin: 'type', end: '$',
        keywords: 'type alias',
        contains: [CONSTRUCTOR, LIST, RECORD, COMMENT]
      },
      {
        beginKeywords: 'infix infixl infixr', end: '$',
        contains: [hljs.C_NUMBER_MODE, COMMENT]
      },
      {
        begin: 'port', end: '$',
        keywords: 'port',
        contains: [COMMENT]
      },

      // Literals and names.

      // TODO: characters.
      hljs.QUOTE_STRING_MODE,
      hljs.C_NUMBER_MODE,
      CONSTRUCTOR,
      hljs.inherit(hljs.TITLE_MODE, {begin: '^[_a-z][\\w\']*'}),
      COMMENT,

      {begin: '->|<-'} // No markup, relevance booster
    ],
    illegal: /;/
  };
}