Bjorn Buckwalter
What is your preferred method of parsing floating point numbers (from String to Float/Double)? Parsec it seems only does positive floats out of the box and PolyParse requires the float to be on scientific form (exponential).
Thanks for the bug report. Polyparse is now fixed. New version (polyparse-1.3) available on Hackage. And my apologies. This was purely an oversight - the real-world use-case at the time I wrote the code for Text.Parse.parseFloat was entirely dependent on scientific notation, and I neglected the more usual case. For those looking for a template to implement textual float-parsing that is faster (or has better error messages) than the H'98 Read class, feel free to translate this code into your own parser combinator library of choice: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/polyparse/haddock/src/Text/Parse.html#parseFloat (Note that the actual instances of the Parse class for Float and Double use "parseSigned parseFloat" to deal with non-positive numbers.) Regards, Malcolm