Just a quick implementation of line-numbering where a parser is wrapped to keep track of the number of lines it has parsed so far

chomp_numbering_wrapper.rs

use std::marker::PhantomData;

pub trait NumberingType {
    type Token;
    type Position;

    fn update(&mut self, &[Self::Token]);
    fn position(&self) -> Self::Position;
}

pub struct LineNumber(u64);

impl LineNumber {
    pub fn new() -> Self { LineNumber(1) }
}

impl NumberingType for LineNumber {
    type Token    = u8;
    type Position = u64;

    fn update(&mut self, b: &[Self::Token]) {
        self.0 = self.0 + b.iter().filter(|&&c| c == b'\n').count() as u64
    }

    fn position(&self) -> Self::Position {
        self.0
    }
}

pub struct Numbering<'i, T, P, R, E>
  where T: NumberingType,
        P: FnMut(Input<'i, T::Token>) -> ParseResult<'i, T::Token, R, E>,
        R: 'i,
        E: 'i,
        <T as NumberingType>::Token: 'i {
    parser:    P,
    numbering: T,
    _re:       PhantomData<&'i (R, E)>,
}

impl<'i, N, P, R, E> Numbering<'i, N, P, R, E>
  where N: NumberingType,
        P: FnMut(Input<'i, N::Token>) -> ParseResult<'i, N::Token, R, E>,
        R: 'i,
        E: 'i,
        <N as NumberingType>::Token: 'i {
    pub fn new(n: N, p: P) -> Self {
        Numbering {
            parser:    p,
            numbering: n,
            _re:       PhantomData,
        }
    }

    pub fn parse(&mut self, i: Input<'i, N::Token>) -> ParseResult<'i, N::Token, (N::Position, R), E> {
        use primitives::InputBuffer;
        use primitives::InputClone;
        use primitives::IntoInner;
        use primitives::State;

        let buf = i.clone();
        let pos = self.numbering.position();

        match (self.parser)(i.clone()).into_inner() {
            State::Data(remainder, t) => {
                self.numbering.update(&buf.buffer()[..buf.buffer().len() - remainder.buffer().len()]);

                remainder.ret((pos, t))
            },
            State::Error(remainder, e) => {
                self.numbering.update(&buf.buffer()[..buf.buffer().len() - remainder.len()]);

                buf.replace(remainder).err(e)
            },
            State::Incomplete(n) => buf.incomplete(n)
        }
    }
}

#[test]
fn line_numbering() {
    use take;
    use std::cell::Cell;
    use buffer::{IntoStream, Stream, StreamError};

    let mut data = b"abc\nc\n\ndef".into_stream();
    // Just some state to make sure we are called the correct number of times:
    let i = Cell::new(0);
    let p = |d| {
        i.set(i.get() + 1);
        take(d, 2)
    };
    let mut n = Numbering::new(LineNumber::new(), p);
    // If we could implement FnMut for Numbering then we would be good, but we need to wrap now:
    let mut m = |i| n.parse(i);

    assert_eq!(data.parse(&mut m), Ok((1, &b"ab"[..])));
    assert_eq!(i.get(), 1);
    assert_eq!(data.parse(&mut m), Ok((1, &b"c\n"[..])));
    assert_eq!(i.get(), 2);
    assert_eq!(data.parse(&mut m), Ok((2, &b"c\n"[..])));
    assert_eq!(i.get(), 3);
    assert_eq!(data.parse(&mut m), Ok((3, &b"\nd"[..])));
    assert_eq!(i.get(), 4);
    assert_eq!(data.parse(&mut m), Ok((4, &b"ef"[..])));
    assert_eq!(i.get(), 5);
    assert_eq!(data.parse(&mut m), Err(StreamError::EndOfInput));
    assert_eq!(i.get(), 5);
}