Re: [Haskell-cafe] A valuable new combinator for Parsec?

2007-03-12 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:24:48 +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: > pmaybe :: GenParser tok st a -> GenParser tok st (Maybe a) > pmaybe p = option Nothing (p >>= return . Just) > > I've been using it happily with some code of mine. Do people think > that it would be generally useful to have in Parsec?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A valuable new combinator for Parsec?

2007-03-12 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:24:48AM +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: > While using the very nice "option" combinator of Parsec recently, it > seemed to me that it would be useful to have a more specific kind of > combinator for optional tokens that wraps the token into a Maybe type. > > So, that gives:

[Haskell-cafe] A valuable new combinator for Parsec?

2007-03-12 Thread Maxime Henrion
Hello all, While using the very nice "option" combinator of Parsec recently, it seemed to me that it would be useful to have a more specific kind of combinator for optional tokens that wraps the token into a Maybe type. So, that gives: pmaybe :: GenParser tok st a -> GenParser tok st (M