On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Alex Clemmer
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clemmer.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Haskell people,
>
> I've been snooping through various mailing lists and the current Haskell
> implementation of regular expressions and I was wondering if there has been
> a discussion about implementing regex parsing with derivatives. If so, I
> haven't seen it. If not, I'd like to have a discussion about it -- if for no
> other reason than to decide whether I should implement it as a library, or
> (to attempt to implement it) as a core feature.
>
> For those of you who don't know, recent work by Might and Darais indicates
> that parsing CFGs can be done better (i.e., significantly faster) than more
> "traditional" approaches. Might's presenting at ICFP later in September
> about it.
>
> I guess the first thing I should ask is, which mailing list is actually the
> right place to field this inquiry. I considered dropping it in the main
> haskell list, but wasn't sure how people would respond.
>