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

On 2005-10-13, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:29:57AM +0000, Robin Green wrote a message of 22 lines which said:

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... and, in the case of the Standard Prelude section, or equivalent, a specification of well-understood functions that the spec authors agree "should" be provided in all implementations. ... (It is, however, one of the "must haves" for Haskell to be considered for use in production systems.)

Regexps and XML are, IMHO, also "must haves".

Bah, simple libraries. They don't have to be part of the Standard Prelude. (See http://haskell.org/hawiki/RegexSyntax , BTW, which cantains some DWIM operators overloaded on return type -- perl's scalar/list distinction on steroids.) -- Aaron Denney -><-