Thanks for the hint, I will try to implement the suggested monadic
structure.
As for the MonadState declaration:
If I put
instance MonadState PState Parser
then ghci complains:
Illegal instance declaration for 'MonadState PState Parser'
(The instance type must be of form (T a b c)
where T is not a synonym, and a,b,c are distict type variables)
In the instance declaration for 'MonadState PState Parser'
I found out that invoking ghci with "-fglasgow-exts" solves the issue nut I
have to admit that I do not really understand what's so special about this
instance declaration to make it require the extensions.
Harald.
Andrew Pimlott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Harald ROTTER <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
> cc: haskell@haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell] Monadic
parser combinators with logging
03.08.2006 02:54
Delivered date:
03.08.2006 02:54
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:52:14AM +0200, Harald ROTTER wrote:
> newtype Parser a = Parser { runParser :: (PState -> [(a, PState)])}
>
> as the parsing monad with the Parser state "PState" that contains the
> remaining input after matching and possibly some additional user defined
> state elements. I want to add logging such that the application of every
> element parser/parser combinator gets recorded in a string. In the end I
> want to print out the trace of all encountered parsers for successful and
> for failed matches.
>
> I tried to use the WriterT transformer to add a writer monad on top of
the
> Parser monad but for failed matches (i.e. runParser gives []) the log is
> also "lost" since WriterT gives a monad of "m (a,w)".
Excellent observation! The order in which you apply monad transformers
matters. "WriterT w Parser" keeps a separate output for each branch of
the parser. If you stare at the definition of (>>=) for WriterT, you'll
see why this must be so. Or, as you did, you can just look at the type.
> What I would look for is "(m a, w)".
Hmm, that looks like (if m is Parser) a parser plus some output. I
think you'd rather have an answer plus some output, ie "([(a, PState)],
w)". Hint: Consider
newtype Parser m a = Parser { runParser :: (PState -> m [(a, PState)])}
where m is a Monad.
> How can I make the Parser monad given above an instance of MonadState ?
(I
> always get kind errors ...)
Did you switch up the order of parameters or something? I don't get any
error using
instance MonadState Int Parser where ...
Andrew
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