Hi Compl, At least, for the example you gave on this list, it can be fixed by returning Nothing instead of using the facility for failure baked into (mega)parsec. (Proposed diff for reference: https://github.com/complyue/dcp/pull/3) "Returning Nothing" can be seen as adding a new channel for errors, turning the Parser monad into `MaybeT Parser`. Then `return Nothing` is how `empty` is defined by `MaybeT`, allowing that error to be caught and recovered from at the point where it was thrown, no backtracking. (And the original failure mode of Parser becomes `lift empty`.) Does that address your problem? Cheers, Li-yao On 10/28/2020 5:18 AM, Compl Yue wrote:
(sorry for repost, seems GMail's html processing on my last email has rendered it barely readable, so again with plain text here)
Dear Cafe,
I'm still not fully clear about the confusion regarding megaparsec's behavior that I posted lately here. But now comes to my mind that it may have some problem rooted in the lacking of recoverability semantic with respect to parser combinators, some quoting from http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parser-combinators/docs/Control-Applicati...
The *A note on backtracking* section
Combinators in this module are defined in terms Applicative and Alternative operations.
And `empty`'s doc:
This parser fails unconditionally without providing any information about the cause of the failure.
Clearly `empty` is used to express failure, but there is seemingly no device to explicitly express whether a failure is recoverable. Then I observed megaparsec's implicit rule as currently implemented is like:
*) a failure with no input consumed can be recovered by rest parsers *) a failure with some input consumed can not be recovered by rest parsers
This works to great extent, but I would think the expressiveness can be further extended for a parser from the application, to tell the library that some input induces recoverable failure.
I have no expertise to suggest whether `MonadPlus` and/or `MonadFail` are suitable devices to be considered, but as megaparsec has implemented instances for them, I do feel some tweaks would be possible and meaningful.
Best regards, Compl
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