[Haskell-cafe] Suggestions For An Intro To Monads Talk.

[Stephen Tetley]

On 6 August 2010 20:47, David Sankel <camior at gmail.com> wrote:

> There have been some clever things done with monads aside from #1 and #2.
> Parsec is one, but it seems applicative functors are a better match for the
> parsing domain.

Monadic bind is very, very handy for parsing, giving you context
sensitive parsing if you need it.

If you have a grammar that is LL1 plus helpers (i.e. the extended
Kleene operators - many1, sepBy etc.) then applicative formalism is
nice and as Doaitse Swierstra has shown provides good opportunities
for optimization; but I'd hasten to call it a better match in general.