Re: PROPOSAL: Some more 'Applicative' combinators

iavor.diatchki:

Hello,

On Jan 6, 2008 9:20 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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While applicative functors are good for this task, it would be a shame if the innocent reader of haddocks were to acquire the impression that parsing was all they were for.

:-) oh, come on! I was just giving an example of what these combinators may be used for. They are not any more related to parsing than say, 'many', 'some', or 'empty' and '(<|>)'---they provide just a few more useful control structures.

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Why not make the task specificity clearer, with a separate Control.Applicative.Parsing module?

Now _this_ would definitely suggest that they are only good for parsing which would be misleading.

+1 for this proposal. Glue for combining parsers seems like a missing piece. Perhaps toss in an example in the docs?