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Use variadic templates to create composite monadic parsers.
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// A cut down abstraction of a parser. | |
// | |
template <typename T> | |
struct parser | |
{ | |
T v; | |
explicit parser(T t) : v(t) {} | |
T eval() { return v; } | |
}; | |
// A test to see if a type is a parser | |
// | |
template <typename T> | |
struct is_parser_type : std::false_type {}; | |
template <typename T> | |
struct is_parser_type<parser<T>> : std::true_type {}; | |
// The parser specialization of the bind function from Monad. | |
// | |
template <typename U, typename T, typename X> | |
parser<U> bind(parser<T> p, X x) | |
{ | |
static_assert(std::is_convertible<X, std::function<parser<U>(T)>>::value); | |
T t = p.eval(); | |
return x(t); | |
} | |
// This is the interesting bit. | |
// | |
// We want a variadic function that can take an arbitrary number of parsers of different types, | |
// use `bind` to apply them in sequence, and if they all succeed, apply a function | |
// (which is the last agument) to take their result values to yield a new parser. | |
// | |
// That is, we want something like the following (using mangled c++/haskell notation): | |
// parser<T1> -> parser<T2> -> ... -> parser<Tn> -> (T1 -> T2 -> ... -> Tn -> parser<U>) -> parser<U> | |
// | |
// We use the fact that the function is not an instantiation of parser to recursively invoke bind, | |
// effectively rotating the argument list, until we get to the base case which has the function as | |
// the first argument. | |
// | |
// Here's the base case: | |
// | |
template <typename V, typename X, typename... Ts> | |
typename std::enable_if<std::is_convertible<X, std::function<parser<V>(Ts...)>>::value, parser<V>>::type | |
seq(X x, Ts... ts) | |
{ | |
return x(ts...); | |
} | |
// Here's the recursive case: | |
// | |
template <typename V, typename P, typename... Ts> | |
typename std::enable_if<is_parser_type<P>::value, parser<V>>::type | |
seq(P p, Ts... ts) | |
{ | |
using T = typename deconstruct_template<P>::type; | |
return bind<V>(p, [=](T t) { | |
return seq<V>(ts..., t); | |
}); | |
} |
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