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Graham Matthews graham at sloth.math.uga.edu
Sat Jul 17 12:09:19 EDT 1999 
Tim Peters (tim_one at email.msn.com) wrote:
: A nice paper on Clean parsing combinators can be downloaded as item 5 
: > 
: Interestingly enough, the next paper on the list ("An Interpreter") declines
: to use  combinators for its parsing task, instead building a conventional
: "by hand" recursive descent parser.

Yes it's kind of strange that they don't use the combinators to build
the interpreter. One of Peyton-Jones' papers has a good (but small) 
example of making an interpreter with combinators (it's probably the
first paper of his on monads). 

Tim Peters (tim_one at email.msn.com) wrote:
: another-two-years-and-they'll-discover-lex/yacc<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim

I'll take that as a BIG <wink>. Once you use these combinators you will
never go back to lex/yacc (unless you want LALR(n) grammars).

graham
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