24 Feb
2004
24 Feb
'04
3:04 p.m.
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 15.25, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
Per Larsson wrote:
.. I have since long missed some
typical text processing functionality in haskell.
it is often the case that people process "text" only because they have no better (structured and typed) way of representing their data...
I agree with your point in the general case. For serious parsing and pretty printing tasks there are great haskell libraries like Parsec and PrettyPrint. But I can't see why the haskell user shouldn't also have access to concise text processing notations, e.g. regular expressions and printf, to be used in, e.g. short script-like programs? Cheers Per