The more general question, which stems from a certain degree of ignorance on my part, is what uses folks have found for Alternative at all outside of parsing.

--S

On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:43 AM, apfelmus wrote:

Iavor Diatchki wrote:
Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
Why not make the task specificity clearer, with a separate
Control.Applicative.Parsing module?

+1

Now _this_ would definitely suggest that they are only good for
parsing which would be misleading.

Would it? I mean, I currently don't know a second use case for them. Preferably, the names like skipMany , endBy , sepBy etc. should still make sense in the new context.


Regards,
apfelmus

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