[Haskell-cafe] newbie question on Parsers from "Programming In Haskell"

[Juozas Gaigalas]

Hello,

I am a somewhat experienced programmer and a complete Haskell newbie, so I
hope this is the correct ML for my question.

I have decided to learn Haskell and started with  Graham Hutton's book.
Everything was going nicely until section 8.4, on sequencing functional
parsers. I am trying to write an elementary parser that produces the 1st and
3d elements from a string. I am using the code from the book.

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type Parser a = String -> [(a, String)]

return :: a -> Parser a
return v = \inp -> [(v, inp)]

failure :: Parser a
failure = \inp -> []


item :: Parser Char
item = \inp -> case inp of
                  [] -> []
                  (x:xs) -> [(x, xs)]


parse :: Parser a -> String -> [(a, String)]
parse p inp = p inp


(>>=) :: Parser a -> (a -> Parser b) -> Parser b
p >>= f = \inp -> case parse p inp of
                  [] -> []
                  [(v, out)] -> parse (f v) out


p :: Parser (Char, Char)
p = do x <- item
       item
       y <- item
       return (x, y)  -- LINE 34
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BUT, when I try to :load parse.hs from hugs I get the following error:

ERROR "parse.hs":34 - Last generator in do {...} must be an expression


I have no idea what I am doing wrong and why Hugs is complaining.  I hope
this question is not too simply for this mailing list, but I have honestly
googled for an answer and had found nothing.



Juozas Gaigalas
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