Dear all,
I am a Haskell newbie and I try to find my way through Monad territory.
Actually I am studying the non-deterministic monadic parser combinators as
descibed by Hutton and Meijer. Although I find this very elegant
and concise I seem to have problems extending the parser monads.
I use
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)". What I would look for
is "(m a, w)".
Finally, my questions:
What is the most elegant way to achieve logging parsers ?
Can I use the standard transformes or do I need to write my own
transformers ?
How can I make the Parser monad given above an instance of MonadState ? (I
always get kind errors ...)
Any hints are really appreciated.
Thank you
Harald Rotter.
