[Haskell-cafe] Lazy read

Taral taralx at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 13:41:42 EST 2006


On 2/16/06, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best way to modify the code to have read operate lazily?
> Is there any method that doesn't require writing a custom parser? Is
> there any standard way for solving a problem like this?

Honestly, don't use read. It's icky.

Check out ReadP or parsec, they are far superior in general. I think
there was a suggestion of replacing Read with ReadP?

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