Re: [Caml-list] ANN: angstrom

["Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>]

Le samedi, 23 juillet 2016 à 08:41, Cole Brown a écrit :
> it seems like such a pedantic critique would be most productively presented off the main band, no?

Do you think that asking for a compelling story at the error reporting level is a *pedantic* critique ?  

If that is the case then I hope I won't ever in my life have to use any software produced by you.

Beyond correctness, how you deal with error conditions along the whole computing chain is precisely what distinguishes mediocre software from excellent one, both from a programmer and end user perspsective. If the foundations you build on do not provide the facilities that allow you to do so then, by transitivity, you are only bound to produce mediocre software.

Now it seems that I was misguided in what Angstrom is providing, I thought it was a general combinator parsing library that I could eventually use to write my decoders and parsers in either binary or text formats, but given that it doesn't seem to care too much about error reporting, it may not be.

> congrats on the release! exciting to see something like this in the ocaml world. i look forward to its continued improvement.
It seems such pointless congratulations would be most productively presented off the main band, no ?  

Best,  

Daniel