Re: Text.ParserCombinators.* is a bad name

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:27:43PM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Ross Paterson wrote:

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Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec namespace should be deprecated in favour of: Text.Combinators.Parsec

If you want to make them shorter, it's the redundant "Combinators" that should go.

Is there not a valid distinction between a Parser library (e.g. for XML documents), and a ParserCombinator library (which enables one to write parsers)?

An XML parser would presumably be under Text.XML, etc, while a general one would be higher in the hierarchy.

Is it helpful to blur the boundaries between the glue and the things being glued?

OK, but to replace ParserCombinators with Combinators is to forget what kind of glue we're talking about.

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While we're complaining about module names, how about System.Console.GetOpt?

What is wrong with it? (Not a rhetorical question - I really can't guess!)

Sorry, it's the Console I object to, as in System.Console.Readline, when it's for parsing the command line. There may be no console involved at all.