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,
I was not implying it should be forbidden, rather I meant to give a reason why text processing seems to be less common in typical Haskell programs.
> to be used in, e.g. short script-like programs?
sure. but why do we need text processing in scripting? because the usual OS shells have `string' as their only data type. we better change that :-) anyone for a fully typed Haskell shell? -- -- Johannes Waldmann, Tel/Fax: (0341) 3076 6479 / 6480 -- ------ http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~waldmann/ ---------
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