On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Jon Fairbairn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 37 lines which said:
> > Because the language used inside these strings is standard, > > multi-language, widely used and documented? > > 10,000 lemmings can't be wrong? Right, disregard ASCII and specify the lexemes of Haskell 2 in a new encoding scheme, much better than ASCII :-) > Not even the syntax of such regexps is checked at compile time. Of course, from the compiler's PoV, they are just strings. May be a new form of strings, like in Perl, to show that this is a regexp? > Since Unicode is increasingly adopted, we could just use «regexp» The Unicode standard for regexps, UTR #18 (http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/) uses the very same standard syntax that you criticize. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
