Simple example using Parsec (was: [Haskell-cafe] Rethinking O O idioms)

[Bayley, Alistair]

Sure. Learning Parsec took me a few hours, whereas John's parsing task might
be done in much less time, if it's simple enough. OTOH, there's value in
being able to use Parsec, so it's a good excuse to learn.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Klyne [mailto:GK at ninebynine.org] 
> Sent: 30 September 2004 10:34
> To: Bayley, Alistair; 'John Goerzen'; haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> Subject: Simple example using Parsec (was: [Haskell-cafe] 
> Rethinking OO idioms)
> 
> At 09:01 30/09/04 +0100, Bayley, Alistair wrote:
> >Ben suggested using Parsec for reading the config file. 
> Parsec is a fine
> >library, but there is a learning curve, and you might find 
> it quicker to do
> >the parsing yourself, if it's very simple. Your call.
> 
> Hmmm... Parsec *can* be simple too.  Here's one I did earlier:
>    http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/HaskellUtils/RegexParser.hs
> 
> #g

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