That's always been my canonical example about how you can overuse
typeclasses to make a simple job into an impenetrable documentation
hunt. Long ago I wrapped it in a simple API and have always used
that. Much later, pcre-heavy showed up and I just switched my wrapper
to use that, since it was still a little too typeclass happy for my
taste.
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Chris Dornan
Dear Haskell Cafe,
With the regex announcement, I wanted to try get other folks' perspective on what has been happening with the Haskell regular expression libraries.
I have been in turn impressed at how good the engineering of the Regex packages while gobsmacked by how difficult the traditional Text.Regex API is to use.
In this blog post,
http://engineers.irisconnect.net/posts/2017-03-07-regex.html
I rather cheekily speculate that the Haskellers perhaps have been a bit disdainful of regular expressions (not important in a language capable of doing proper parsing, etc.).
What do you think?
Chris
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