Haskell Platform decision: time to bless parsec 3?

[Martijn van Steenbergen]

I would like to see some changes before it becomes a blessed package. 
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the following ideas:

* Get rid of the user state type parameter u. If you want state, set m = 
StateT s.
* Text.Parsec.Prim currently exports its own version of <|> specialized 
to the ParsecT type constructor. Is there a good reason for this? It 
clashes when I also import Control.Applicative in my own modules.
* Most of the combinators in Text.Parsec.Combinator have types 
specialized to ParsecT (with a Stream class constraint as consequence) 
while they could be defined in terms of Applicative only. I think these 
should be rewritten in terms of Applicative (or Monad if absolutely 
necessary) whenever possible.

Groetjes,

Martijn.


On 11/6/10 16:18, Don Stewart wrote:
> I propose we agree to remove this ad hoc rule, and thus the HP will ship
> with parsec 3.
>
> Does anyone have concerns with this?