[Haskell-cafe] Using Parsec with other monads

[Roly Perera]

Hi,

I've spent some time writing a parser using the Parsec library and was looking 
forward to being able to plug in some side-behaviour once I'd got the parser 
working.

Now it seems I can't actually do that in a nice way because Parsec appears to 
be "fixed" to a simple State monad.

I found this mentioned in the Cafe archives, but not much discussion.  Is there 
a reason Parsec wasn't implemented using the monad transformer approach?  Are 
there any plans to open it up?  It's a nice powerful library and a natural 
thing to want to do for example would be to plug in something like a Reader to 
track a variable context.  I guess one could abuse the State monad to achieve 
the goal but that feels like the wrong tool for the job.

Any insights appreciated.

thanks,
Roly