possibly : ('a -> 'b * 'a) -> 'a -> 'b list * 'a
- SYNOPSIS
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Attempts to parse, returning empty list of items in case of failure.
- DESCRIPTION
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If p is a parser, then possibly p is another parser that attempts to parse
with p and if successful returns the result as a singleton list, but will
return the empty list instead if the core parser p raises Noparse.
- FAILURE CONDITIONS
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Never fails.
- COMMENTS
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This is one of a suite of combinators for manipulating ``parsers''. A parser is
simply a function whose OCaml type is some instance of
:('a)list -> 'b * ('a)list. The function should take a list of objects of
type :'a (e.g. characters or tokens), parse as much of it as possible from
left to right, and return a pair consisting of the object derived from parsing
(e.g. a term or a special syntax tree) and the list of elements that were not
processed.
- SEE ALSO
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++, |||, >>, a, atleast, elistof, finished, fix, leftbin, listof, many, nothing,
rightbin, some.