Haskell Platform decision: time to bless parsec 3?

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On 06/11/2010 17:47, Stephen Tetley wrote:
> Couldn't an independent package could achieve this goal?
>
> If the combinators were defined in Parsec they would be under the
> Parsec namespace rather than Control.* and Parsec having type
> specialized versions might produce better error messages.
>

Not just error messages, either - it's room for further optimisation 
possibilities any time a combinator might expand to an infinite grammar, 
for example. And Parsec already tells you at runtime when it has certain 
kinds of bad grammar that it can't spot statically.

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