[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: ParseP library 0.1

[Twan van Laarhoven]

Hi,

Mostly for fun, and to see how well it would work, I made a 
generalized/improved variant of the ReadP parser library.

Unlike ReadP ParseP can handle any type of token, and actually generates 
error messages in case something goes wrong. It is also possible to use 
things other then a list as an input stream, for example ByteStrings.

In addition to the unbiased choice provided by ReadP, and a 'greedy' 
choice operator similar to the behavior of Parsec (when using try), 
there is also what I call a 'soft biased' choice. This operator prefers 
the left alternative, but not if it leads to parse errors later on. For 
example
  > runParser ((lit 'a' <<|> return ()) >> lit 'a') "a"
will not lead to errors, while it would be an error with other biased 
choice operators.

An obvious advantage of ParseP over Parsec is that you don't have to 
mess with 'try'. Also, all alternatives are parsed in parallel, so no 
backtracking is needed. But I have no idea how the performance would 
compare in practice.

Also, I am not to happy about the name, does anyone has any other 
suggestions?

Homepage: http://twan.home.fmf.nl/parsep/
Source:   darcs get http://twan.home.fmf.nl/repos/parsep
Haddock:  http://twan.home.fmf.nl/parsep/doc/html/

Twan