[Haskell-cafe] problem with happy

Stephen Tetley stephen.tetley at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 11:56:23 EDT 2010


The lexer was wrong - but it was the lexer function not the lexer spec
- try the one below.

Note that you have to take 'len' chars from the original input.
Previously you were taking the whole of the "rest-of--input":

lexer :: (TheToken -> P a) -> P a
lexer f input@(_,_,instr) =
  case alexScan input 0 of
    AlexEOF -> f Eof input
    AlexError (pos, _, _) ->
      Failed $ showPos pos ++ ": lexical error"
    AlexSkip input' len -> lexer f input'
    AlexToken (pos, c, str) len act ->
      let (Token newpos thetok) = act pos (take len instr)
      in f thetok (newpos, c, str)


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