I've been struggling with writing a parser that needs to parse include files
within source files. So far I cannot get this to work (in reality to get work
done I wrote a kludge that returns a list of include filenames to be run later
in a pure IO function. I realized that this just amounted to creating my own
half-assed monad system so I really don't want to use this approach). I have
read the tutorials I could find on monad transformers but I still don't see
what's going on. I'm using the Parsec parser library. Here's an simple example
of what I've tried. I also tried using liftIO and got a message about needing
to add an instance of MonadIO. This made more sense but the type of liftIO is
baffling
class Monad m => MonadIO m where
liftIO :: IO a -> m a
But how do you define this function? There is no constructor for "IO a" that
you can "take apart".
Anyway, here is the code that just uses lift. Keep in mind that the outer monad
is just "GenParser Char st [Char]". I'm guessing this is wrong and I should
have a transformer monad as the outer layer. But which one? and how to use it?
pio = do {
s <- many1 alphaNum;
input <- lift (readFile s);
return input;
}
go6 = runParser pio () "" "This is a test"
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ghc output from trying to load this is
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Couldn't match kind `* -> * -> *' against `(* -> *) -> * -> *'
When matching the kinds of `GenParser Char :: * -> * -> *' and
`t :: (* -> *) -> * -> *'
Expected type: GenParser Char st
Inferred type: t IO
In a 'do' expression: lift (writeFile "Foo" s)
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