On Tuesday 24 February 2004 15.25, Johannes Waldmann wrote: > Per Larsson wrote: > > .. I have since long missed some > > > > typical text processing functionality in haskell. > > it is often the case that people process "text" > only because they have no better (structured and typed) way of > representing their data...
I agree with your point in the general case. For serious parsing and pretty printing tasks there are great haskell libraries like Parsec and PrettyPrint. But I can't see why the haskell user shouldn't also have access to concise text processing notations, e.g. regular expressions and printf, to be used in, e.g. short script-like programs? Cheers Per _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
