On 7 Nov 2002, Alastair Reid wrote: > > Why not just define your own function, much like `read`, that > > produces a more suitable error message? > > readsPrec (i.e., the class method) doesn't report how far it got when > it reports failure.
Yes, that's true if no prefix is a valid parse. In the case Johannes gave--where there was a valid parse plus trailing garbage--one could, using readsprec, report a better message. But a general solution requires significant changes as you said. -- Dean _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
