feat: add a backtrack combinator to Gen.#53
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Looks reasonable to me, I'll wait on Sebastian's remark regarding meta to merge.
One thing: What's the idea behind calling this combinator backtrack? It doesn't really feel like there is backtracking going on to me?
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I guess whether this is "actual" backtracking can be debated. |
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Oops, @hargoniX I noticed that |
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Because we are in
meta, we now need to add aninhabitedinstance toGenbefore defining recursive functions which is possible with exceptions.Backtracking is only useful when generators can fail, but this is quite useful in "guess and check" situations. There may be some redundancy with functionality provided later in
Testable.I've also made
pickpublic since it can be quite useful.