Re: replacing guile with haskell?

Graham Klyne writes:

I'm thinking in particular that a function that turned a regular expression into a Parsec parser function could be useful, as in:

regexp.compile :: String -> GenParser Char st [String]

Just curious: Why would you want something like that? I thought that the good thing(tm) about regular expressions is that they can be parsed by a finite state machine rather than a recursive descent parser, so for all I know, the C regular expression library that comes with your system is most likely much faster than any Parsec code would every be. Not that I have tried it, though ... Peter