Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How efficient is read?

Stephen Tetley writes:

On 9 May 2010 11:42, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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If you want to parse a stream, you don't want Parsec ___ as it isn't an online parser - online meaning 'streaming' i.e. it can produce some results during the 'work' rather than a single result at the end.

I thought this was one of the new features in Parsec-3...

Possibly?

If so, maybe the authors ought to mention it in the cabal.file / package description. I know it can use bytestrings which have efficiency advantages over String, but that doesn't make it online.

Well, RWH talks about Parsecs' "input stream", so maybe I'm just confusing the terms: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com