29 May
2009
29 May
'09
6:45 a.m.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Isaac Dupree
Does HaRP/RegularPatterns have any relation to XHaskell (e.g. see http://code.google.com/p/xhaskell/wiki/homepage )?
XHaskell is certainly related work, and we discuss the relation in our paper. The short story is that HaRP is much more lightweight, it is basically just syntactic sugar for parser combinators performing regular pattern matching over a list, with some clever semantics for the patterns involved. It has, for better or worse, none of the intricate type-based machinery that is XHaskell's claim to fame. Cheers, /Niklas