[Haskell-cafe] Examples for the problem

[Tillmann Rendel]

Hi,

Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Each instruction has up to three operands, looking like this:
>
>      @+4 (Jump for bytes forward)
>       "foo" (the string foo"
>       '0'>>(1+2)
>
> etc. A string literal may contain anything but a newline, (there are
> no escape codes or similar). But when I  add a check for a newline,
> the parser just fails and the next one is tried. This is undesired, as
> I want to return an error like "unexpected newline" instead. How is
> this handled in other parsers?

I would expect that the other parsers are tried, but fail, because they 
do not accept an initial quotation mark. You get two errors messages then:

   1. Unexpected newline after quotation mark
   2. Unexpected quotation mark

These two error messages reflect the two ways to solve the problem: 
Either delete the first quotation mark, or add a second one.

   Tillmann

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