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+-*- org -*-
+
+Guile Parser Combinators
+
+* About
+
+  A simple, SRFI-41 stream-based, monadic parser combinator library
+  for Guile Scheme.
+
+* Example
+
+  #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
+    (define stream->string (compose list->string stream->list))
+
+    (define (parse-string str)
+      (lambda (stream)
+        (let ((input (stream->string (stream-take (string-length str) stream))))
+          (if (string=? str input)
+              (parse-result str (stream-drop (string-length str) stream))
+              %parse-failure))))
+
+    (define article
+      (parse-any (parse-string "the ") (parse-string "a ")))
+
+    (define noun
+      (parse-any (parse-string "student ") (parse-string "professor ")))
+
+    (define verb
+      (parse-any (parse-string "studies ") (parse-string "lectures ")))
+
+    (define noun-phrase
+      (parse-each article noun))
+
+    (define verb-phrase
+      (parse-each verb noun-phrase))
+
+    (define sentence
+      (parse-each noun-phrase verb-phrase))
+
+    (parse noun-phrase "the professor ")
+    (parse sentence "the professor lectures the student ")
+  #+END_SRC
+
+* License
+
+  GNU LGPL3+