On 25 September 2010 05:30, Evan Laforge
I thought the parsec source included some example parsers for simple languages? In any case, there is lots of material floating around, [Snip]
The best documentation is Daan Leijen's original manual, plus the original source distribution which has example parsers for Henk, Tiger and Mondrain. Both are available from here - the original poster was working with the HTML version of the manual - there is also a PDF version: http://legacy.cs.uu.nl/daan/parsec.html It would be nice if the Hackage package added the examples back into the distribution. The parser in the Scheme in 48 hours tutorial isn't a great example of Parsec as it doesn't use the Token module. Not using the Token module means the Scheme parser does hacky things such as parseNumber which uses /read/ - this is double work, Parsec already handles numbers, it doesn't need to call out to another parser (Haskell's builtin read). http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours/Parsing