[Haskell-cafe] Re: Return user state in Parsec

[Achim Schneider]

Maciej Podgurski <maciej.podgurski at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently writing a parser using the Parsec library. What I want
> is to store the order of each subparser called in a user state. So
> every single parser will be marked with a label that is stored in a
> special treelike structure when the parser is run.
> 
> My problem is to return the last state of this structure when a parse 
> error occurred. This information shall be used to display a kind of 
> stack trace showing the order of the parser calls for debug purposes. 
> Any ideas how to achieve this?
> 
Write the parser in a way that can never, ever fail, and return the
parse error as part of your tree. That is, write a wrapper that puts
optionMaybe's around every parser you call and records label, position
and everything, and maybe go ahead and roll your own monad inside of
ParsecT

PS: don't try to influence the parsing based on state, if you don't
feel like despairing. Messy cans of worms lay ahead.


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