At 17:24 24/02/04 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
At 18:07 23/02/04 -0800, John Meacham wrote:
It provides regular and monadic versions, a very overloaded and useful interface, as well as extensibility. although currently the only instance is based on Text.Regex, it generalizes to matching lists of arbitrary type, not just strings, and also leaves the door open for compile-time checked and optimized regular expressions via template Haskell.
I have a concern here that I hope you won't see as a negative response to your ideas...
I recently ran into some problems porting some Haskell code to Windows because it used the Text.Regex library, which is dependent on a Unix-only system.
Text.Regex works fine on Windows, at least on GHC. It seems that Hugs doesn't make it available, perhaps because it requires an auxiliary C regex engine, which we provide as part of GHC. It may be that this code isn't as portable as the rest of Hugs, which is why they don't provide it, but I'll let the Huge folks comment on that.
Ah, yes, maybe so. The last communication I have on this is: http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/hugs-bugs/2004-January/001465.html #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact