[Haskell-cafe] Re: How efficient is read?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Mon May 10 06:56:43 EDT 2010


On May 10, 2010, at 04:32 , Paul R wrote:
> Stephen> If you want to parse a stream, you don't want Parsec as
> Stephen> produces as it isn't an online parser - online meaning
>
> Thank you for this well detailed explanation. It was just me misusing
> the word "stream", I was actually meaning a simple bounded string.

That's not misuse, it's just confusing the usual parser terminology  
with the usual Haskell terminology.  (Hence also the earlier confusion  
about token streams in Parsec 3.)

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