[Haskell-cafe] Regex API ideas

2007-11-01 Thread ChrisK
Hi Bryan, I wrote the current regex API, so your suggestions are interesting to me. The also goes for anyone else's regex API opinions, of course. Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: Ketil Malde wrote: Python used to do pretty well here compared to Haskell, with rather efficient hashes and text

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Regex API ideas

2007-11-01 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
ChrisK wrote: The Haskell regexp libraries actually give us something of a leg down with respect to Python and Perl. True, the pure Haskell library is not as fast as a C library. Actually, I wasn't referring to the performance of the libraries, merely to the non-stick nature of the API.