
23 Feb
2004
23 Feb
'04
5:09 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 ozone@algorithm.com.au wrote:
In my effort to turn Haskell into a language more like Perl (muahaha)[1], I got a bit fed up and implemented something like Perl 5's =~ binding operator (a.k.a. "regex" operator); I thought maybe (snip)
This reminds me that one thing I do miss from the regex stuff I've found so far in Haskell is Perl's ? operator for turning greedy matches into minimally-short ones. I can still usually do what I need to with Parsec, at least, but I just thought I'd mention the issue. -- Mark