[Haskell-cafe] handling non-string command line arguments

[Johan Larson]

I mean getOpt has its own way of keeping track of errors and whatever
construction I use to collect typechecking errors will need another. If
only there were a way for the typechecking errors messages to be picked up
by getOpt itself, and returned with its own native error messages.


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 5:30 PM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:

> What is the issue with other option errors and type matches being
> treated differently? I mean, you can print the same error message. A
> handy trick is to define a helper for building your options list that
> passes the option names into your monadic option builder function so
> it can print the name of the option that was given the wrong type in a
> generic and pretty way. I generally use a Writer monad to collect
> errors rather than an Error monad that cuts out early so all option
> errors can be accumulated and printed together.
>
>     John
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Johan Larson <johan.g.larson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've been looking at choices for parsing command line arguments,
> including
> > getOpt. The examples I can find focus on string arguments, whereas I am
> > interested in numbers. In the application at hand, it is particularly
> > important to issue clear error messages when arguments don't parse as
> > numbers or are out of range.
> >
> > I could use getOpt as a first pass with string arguments and then turn
> the
> > strings into validated numbers in a second pass, but that's a bit
> awkward.
> > Alternately I could use the options records with Options -> IO Options
> > functions. But both of these solutions treat type mismatches differently
> > from other options errors.
> >
> > Has anyone found a cleaner solution?
> >
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> > Johan Larson -- Toronto, Canada
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