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I am amazed that after more than half a dozen articles on functional
parsers that no-one has referred to the literature. The standard
technique goes back to Landin and Burge and is described in Burge's
old book 'Recursive Programming Techniques'. Phil Wadler explored
it in the setting of a more modern functional language in 'How
to Replace Failure with a List of Successes' (FPCA 85, LNCS 201, S-V).
An application of the technique to parsing natural language occurs
in a joint paper by Frost and Launchbury, 'Constructing Natural
Language Interpreters in a Lazy Functional Language' (Computer
Journal - special issue on Lazy Evaluation ed. P.Wadler, Vol 3
No. 2, 1989). The technique has continued to be developed and
used by many people, and I believe the Journal of Functional
Programming is about to publish something by Hutton.

John.