nothing : 'a -> 'b list * 'a

SYNOPSIS
Trivial parser that parses nothing.

DESCRIPTION
The parser nothing parses nothing: it returns the empty list as its parsed item and all the input as its unparsed input.

FAILURE CONDITIONS
Never fails.

USES
This can be useful in alternations (`|||') with other parsers producing a list of items.

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, finished, fix, leftbin, listof, many, possibly, rightbin, some.