7 Jan
2008
7 Jan
'08
1:54 a.m.
Hello,
On Jan 6, 2008 9:20 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan
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.
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. -Iavor