[Haskell-cafe] Re: Interest in helping w/ Haskell standard

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:20:24PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote a message of 23 lines which said:

By the way, it should be possible to handle regular expressions in an Haskell-like way.

If you like so, but as one more possibility, not as the only way.

I always couldn't understand why one has to write regular expressions as strings

Because the language used inside these strings is standard, multi-language, widely used and documented?