[Haskell-cafe] Expression parsing problem

[Ryan Ingram]

> Surely you didn't read my original post, do you? I have a very limited
> knowledge of Monad and I try to find a solution using my current skills
> because the due date is within two weeks. Therefore, I don't think I can
> create a Monadic parser for this.

I think you're giving up way too easily.  My claim is that learning to
make a monadic parser would actually be *faster* than implementing it
this way, and you'll be a better programmer at the end of it.

There's a great functional pearl on this at
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/bib.html#pearl ; you do yourself a
disservice if you don't read it.  It's only 7 pages!

  -- ryan