[Haskell-cafe] Parsec : Problems with operator precedence

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+cl at mega-nerd.com
Mon Dec 29 06:10:11 EST 2008


Daniel Fischer wrote:

> The problem is that "|" is a prefix of "||" and it gets the first bite. So 
> when the parser gets to "||" it first tries to parse a bitwise or. That 
> succeeds. Then the parser is looking for an operand, but it finds the second 
> - unexpected - "|". I don't remember how Parsec's expression parsers work, 
> maybe you can add a "try" some parser(s) to make it work.

I've did try a 'try' but that didn't help.

Erik
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