[Haskell-cafe] Parsing of bytestrings with non-String errors?

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>wrote:

> I've looked at polyparse and attoparsec and they seem to have in common
> that
> the error always is a String.  My current ideas for a project would be a
> lot
> easier if I could just return some other type, something that I can pattern
> match on.


It would be easy enough to add this, but you'd end up with a slightly
convoluted API. Because of the presence of fail in all monadic APIs, you'd
have to support only-a-string as a failure result in some form, so your
failure type would have to be something like Either String a.

There's no support for this in attoparsec simply because I haven't needed
it. I suspect the same is true of other libraries, nothing deeper.
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