[Haskell-cafe] An irritating Parsec problem

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Andrew Coppin wrote:

> Actually, I added this to my real parser, and it actually seems to do exactly
> what I want. Give it an invalid expression and it immediately pinpoints
> exactly where the problem is, why it's a problem, and what you should be doing
> instead. Neat!
> 

Yep. There're some wrinkles (normally involving negation in the grammar), 
but by and large it gets it right - and doubly so if you sprinkle <?>s 
around.

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