finished : 'a list -> int * 'a list

SYNOPSIS
Parser that checks emptiness of the input.

DESCRIPTION
The function finished tests if its input is the empty list, and if so returns a pair of zero and that input. Otherwise it fails.

FAILURE CONDITIONS
Fails on nonempty input.

USES
This function is intended to check that some parsing operation has absorbed all the input.

COMMENTS
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
++, |||, >>, a, atleast, elistof, fix, leftbin, listof, many, nothing, possibly, rightbin, some.