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How to get nice syntax error messages with Happy?


I am currently playing with the happy parser generator.

Other parser generators can give nice messages like "unexpected endline, expected 'then'". With happy I just get the current Tokens and the position of the error.

Can you give me an example of how to get error messages like above?


Solution

  • There is a Happy feature that I have authored for this purpose.

    See my blog post: Toward better GHC syntax errors

    It was merged in this pull request RFC: On parse error - show the next possible tokens.