[Haskell-cafe] Parsec beginners problem

[Dougal Stanton]

On 27/04/07, Jim Burton <jim at sdf-eu.org> wrote:
>
> I  have a couple of questions about my first use of Parsec, which is trying
> to read morse code symbols from a string. I have a map of symbols:
>
> import qualified Data.Map as M
>
> morsemap = M.fromList [('A', ".-")
>                        ...
>                        , ('Z', "--..")]
>
> a string to parse, like
>
> test = "...---..-....-"

This may be relevant or not, but I thought morse required a delimiting
character between letters, because otherwise the message was
ambiguous? I seem to recall somewhere that Parsec didn't handle
non-deterministic parsings very well (or at all).

D.