parsec3 vs parsec-3.x

[Antoine Latter]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Christian Maeder
<Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote:
> Am 02.02.2011 16:27, schrieb Antoine Latter:
>> What do you mean by 'different implementation'? The parsec-3
>> compatibility layer simply re-exports the Text.Parsec.* functions and
>> types in a different module hierarchy. Maybe I missunderstood what you
>> mean.
>
> I mean the two implementations: original parsec-2 code and the
> compatibility layer of parsec-3
>
>> I think I'm just really confused - under what scenario I would prefer
>> using the 'parsec3' package to the 'parsec' package.
>
> In the case, where you want your old parsec-2 code to (continue to) use
> the original implementation and your new code to use the parsec3
> implementation (in one project).
>

Ah! So you want two implementations of a 'parsec' style parser in a
single package, then?

I've never found myself wanting to do that, but I can see how you
would end up with a smaller testing/upgrade overhead.

Antoine