alt short circuits with Incomplete return about nom HOT 3 CLOSED

To make sure I understand, the problem is that for incomplete input, you would expect alt to try another branch, rather than error out?

While I can't speak for Geal, I think this runs counter to how nom is setup for the streaming code path. In streaming, the expectation is that a decision shouldn't be made that will be different based on the amount of input that is available. Or in other words, streaming will fail if it doesn't have a definitive match. Take take_while, it could succeed with any amount of input but instead it doesn't succeed unless it finds a byte that it can't capture.

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When working with streaming input, the parser should give the same result, independently of how the data was chunked. So for combinators like alt, if the child parser returned Incomplete when missing data, but could have succeeded on the complete data, then alt has to return Incomplete too instead of deciding to try another branch

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Thanks I understand your point. I can also use nom::combinator::complete to supplement if I need to.

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