[Haskell-cafe] Re: Brainstorming on how to parse IMAP

Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Sun Aug 3 19:37:06 EDT 2008


John Goerzen wrote:
> I'm interested in writing a library to work with IMAP servers.
> 
> I'm interested in thoughts people have on parsing libraries and methods.
>  I'm a huge fan of Parsec overall -- it lets me have a single-stage
> parser, for instance.  But it isn't sufficiently lazy for this task, and
> I probably will need to deal with ByteStrings instead of Strings, since
> some IMAP messages may be 30MB or more.

You might be interested in Frisby: http://repetae.net/computer/frisby/

Cheers
Ben



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