Re: [Haskell-cafe] short yet featureful grep

2006-04-28 Thread David House
On 27/04/06, John Meacham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my favorite example is the featureful yet short grep, supporting quite a few non-trivial options as well as a detailed '--help' message. :) Does getOptions really take an arbitrary n-tuple? Why? That seems a very odd way of doing things. The

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short yet featureful grep

2006-04-28 Thread John Meacham
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:47:40AM +0100, David House wrote: On 27/04/06, John Meacham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my favorite example is the featureful yet short grep, supporting quite a few non-trivial options as well as a detailed '--help' message. :) Does getOptions really take an arbitrary

[Haskell-cafe] short yet featureful grep

2006-04-27 Thread John Meacham
my favorite example is the featureful yet short grep, supporting quite a few non-trivial options as well as a detailed '--help' message. :) this is a great example for anyone that says strong typing clutters code :) Haskell can be much more concise as well as safer than perl given the right