{-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-} -- | Naive deep embedding of the parsing library. module Parser1 ( P -- :: * -> * -> * , symbol -- :: P s s , pfail -- :: P s a , (+++) -- :: P s a -> P s a -> P s a , ParseResult -- ParseResult s a = [(a, [s])] , parse -- :: P s a -> [s] -> ParseResult s a ) where type ParseResult s a = [(a, [s])] type PSem s a = [s] -> ParseResult s a -- | Each operation is turned into a constructor. data P s a where Symbol :: P s s Fail :: P s a (:+++) :: P s a -> P s a -> P s a Return :: a -> P s a (:>>=) :: P s a -> (a -> P s b) -> P s b symbol :: P s s symbol = Symbol pfail :: P s a pfail = Fail (+++) :: P s a -> P s a -> P s a (+++) = (:+++) instance Monad (P s) where return = Return (>>=) = (:>>=) -- | The parse function corresponds exactly to the semantics, -- except that we use lists instead of multisets. parse :: P s a -> PSem s a parse Symbol (c : s) = [(c, s)] parse Symbol [] = [] parse Fail _ = [] parse (p :+++ q) s = parse p s ++ parse q s parse (Return x) s = [ (x, s) ] parse (p :>>= f) s = bindS (parse p) (parse . f) s {- Here we have shortened the list comprehension from the semantics in Parser0.hs to simplify program calculation: [ (y, s'') | (x, s') <- parse p s , (y, s'') <- parse (f x) s'] = { let q = parse p; g = parse . f; ys = (y, s'') } [ ys | (x, s') <- q s , ys <- g x s'] = { List comprehension translation } concatMap (\(x, s') -> g x s') (q s) = { def. uncurry } concatMap (uncurry g) (q s) = { use this to define bindS } (q `bindS` g) s -} bindS :: PSem s a -> (a -> PSem s b) -> PSem s b q `bindS` g = concatMap (uncurry g) . q {- There are three sources of inefficiency that we can identify: 1. The list comprehension builds a lot of intermediate lists which might be costly. (Partly fixed already.) 2. List append (++) is linear in its first argument which means that left nested applications of (+++) get a quadratic behaviour. 3. (+++) is treated in a depth first way, first computing the results of the left parser, then computing the results of the second parser. This leads to a space leak since we have to hang on to the input string to feed to the second parser, while traversing the string with the first parser. To fix these problems we'll use the laws stated in Parser0 to simplify our implementation. -}