[jamii]

I write a lot of ocaml code (for money, even!) and haven't touched haskell for about four years. I still find the haskell version here easier to read. I imagine what's tripping you up is the operator soup. Whilst ugly (one of the things that turned me off haskell) it is a lot easier to read once you are familiar with basic haskell typeclasses (applicative, functor etc). That said, the ocaml version could definitely be a lot nicer. Check out eg

Yojson (search for 'let positive_int') http://forge.ocamlcore.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=153

Mirage (using MPL for zero copy parsing) https://github.com/avsm/mirage/blob/master/lib/net/direct/mp...

[alavrik]

Hi there! I do quite a bit of both OCaml and Erlang.

In fact, I borrowed Yojson's json parser for my project (piqi.org). Also, I'm familiar with MPL. It looks very nice, but from what I heard it is fairly immature. And you definitely can't parse HTTP this way :)