(Helpful) Error messages
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Description
It would be very handy if parsers generated by `pe` were able to produce proper error messages when they fail to parse a given input. This includes pointing out the longest possible sequence of the input that the parser was able to match and then telling the user what the parser would have expected in order to continue matching from there.
E.g. when using a grammar such as
```
match < "Hello" "world"
```
matching an input of `Hello` should say something like `At line 1, col 5: Expected "world"` or if there were multiple alternatives:
```
match < "Hello" ("world" / "universe")
```
`At line 1, col 5: Expected one of: "world", "universe"`
For character classes one can simply print their definition as the expected value and for rule references print the name of the rule.
See e.g. the error messages that ANTLR produces.
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