[Haskell-cafe] The Proliferation of List-Like Types

[Johan Tibell]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Thomas Schilling
<nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  On 22 feb 2008, at 08.18, Jules Bean wrote:
>  >
>  > You can't call a stream-abstraction utility using a left-fold-
>  > enumerator without cheating (unsafeInterleave), because the stream-
>  > abstraction is incompatible (and leaky! even though it is convenient).
>  >
>  > You can convert in the other direction fine.
>  >
>  > Chunk are no problem, and convertible: you can build an element
>  > fold from a chunk fold, and a chunk fold from an element fold (as
>  > long as there is an 'end-of-input' marker).
>
>  Hm, thinking about it, parsers just need to be able to return a
>  continuation instead of fail at the end of the input.  This
>  continuation can then be invoked with the next chunk as input.

This is what I'll do and it is also what binary-strict's [1]
IncrementalGet parser does.

1. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary-strict-0.3.0

-- Johan