Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is the point of many and some functions in Control.Applicative (for Alternative?)

On 03/07/2010 21:11, Stephen Tetley wrote:

For an applicative parser - many is the same combinator as Parsec's many and some is many1. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Except that there may be good reason to use a version of many specific to the parser, for example to try to keep the grammar finite and thus easier to analyse, or to play nicely with empty string parses. -- flippa@flippac.org