-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 July 2003 01:40 pm, John Meacham wrote:
Hey, I wrote a CSV parser too. seeing as how this seems like a common thing (having 3 independent implementations at least), perhaps it belongs in libraries somewhere? some area dedicated to useful little grammers would be handy. csv, c header files, .x (rpcgen), various preference file formats, etc...
What haskell needs is something along the lines of CPAN. Contributed modules of various utility. Not part of the base libraries, but never-the-less useful and maybe needed for your project. I just poked around and got a copy of a "set" data type. Sure beats writing one. There are lot's of FFI's piling floating around as well. So there's three major categories to start with, that code is already floating around for: Parsers Data Structures FFI I'm sure there are several more, this was just off the top of my head. Shawn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAj8my+IACgkQDtpPjAQxZ6BJLACdHc2Kr1lTZ5FiY9HA1AN+cYq/ Z3cAn2Ejel+LogXRtCvzThUjrlN/uYhd =VEX5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----