On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Haskell and Parsec, and am trying to understand both. I tried > to follow the example of how to use Parsec to parse TeX begin/end groups, > but can't get it to run. I'm using HUGS -98 on Debian. > > When I copied the code I got errors about unknown terms (reserved and > braces). I've tried to get them from the lexer, but now get this error > :load grammar.hsl > ERROR "grammar.hsl":21 - Type error in explicitly typed binding > *** Term : envEnd > *** Type : String -> GenParser Char a [Char] > *** Does not match : String -> Parser () > > Can anyone help me understand what the problem is? > > Here's the code the caused the above error; I believe the part after --TeX > example is verbatim from the Parsec documentation. I picked haskell as the > language for to lexer "arbitrarily." > > import Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec > import qualified Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Token as P > import Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Language(haskell) > reserved = P.reserved haskell > braces = P.braces haskell > > > -- TeX example > environment = do{ name <- envBegin > ; environment > ; envEnd name > } > <|> return () > > envBegin :: Parser String > envBegin = do{ reserved "\\begin" > ; braces (many1 letter) > } > > envEnd :: String -> Parser () > envEnd name = do{ reserved "\\end" > ; braces (string name) > }
My guess is the following: string :: String -> Parser String braces :: Parser a -> Parser a Meaning braces (string name) :: Parser String Which is not the same as your declared return type Parser (). Add a return () at the end of envEnd. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe