Bug in Parsec.Token

Antoine Latter aslatter at gmail.com
Thu Mar 4 16:40:31 EST 2010


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> garious:
>> Ross Paterson wrote:
>> > How about moving parsec-3 to a new name, and bumping parsec-2 to version 4?
>>
>> In "ANNOUNCE: Parsec 3.1.0" yesterday, Derrek Elkins wrote:
>> > the performance should be much better and comparable to Parsec 2
>>
>> Even with the recent release of Parsec 3.1, I'd prefer Parsec 3 be
>> given a new name (ParsecT?) and we bump parsec-2 to version 4.  It's
>> great the two projects implement the same interface, but to call it
>> Version 3 is basically to say that Version 2 is obsolete, which I
>> don't think is necessarily true.  I personally use Parsec 2 simply
>> because its documentation is outstanding and I understand the
>> implementation well.
>>
>> Would you guys be willing to change the name in Hackage?
>
> Derek, as maintainer of the parsec3 code, would you be willing to rename
> it to ParsecT? Or some such?
>
> That would solve the final compat. issue with the Haskell Platform (now
> QC2 is resolved).
>

Could we pursue moving parsec-3 into the Haskell Platform?

Antoine


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