On 3/8/06, Donald Bruce Stewart
* Firstly, a library naming issue. Text.ParserCombinators feels like a clunkey name. This week I was working on a set of regex combinators, that ideally would go under:
Text.Combinators.Regex
but we're stuck with Text.ParserCombinators.Regex. Making me think that:
Text.ParserCombinators.ReadP Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ
namespace should be deprecated in favour of:
Text.Combinators.ReadP Text.Combinators.Parsec Text.Combinators.HughesPJ
Reflecting the wide variety of text-manipulation combinators we use. The latter seem more elegant. Parsec in particular can lead to some noisy import statements in its current namespace.
Why do we need the "Combinators" bit at all? Will we really have so many different kind of parsers and other text manipulation tools that we need to separate them based on their technique? I'd rather have Text.Parsers.Parsec Or even just Text.Parsec /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862