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| author | David Spencer <baildon.research@googlemail.com> | 2016-05-09 09:55:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2016-05-11 03:17:21 +0700 |
| commit | c8f77e4b0882668665dbc89dd2e2b9af3ab5f00e (patch) | |
| tree | 851a47cc04f965632b5a8e2e61fe6b60718cf4f4 /haskell/haskell-regex-applicative/README | |
| parent | 9d53128d7354e3e74f92dcce82a31c3e5dd1132f (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-c8f77e4b0882668665dbc89dd2e2b9af3ab5f00e.tar.gz | |
haskell/haskell-regex-applicative: Added (regexp parsing library).
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <baildon.research@googlemail.com>
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diff --git a/haskell/haskell-regex-applicative/README b/haskell/haskell-regex-applicative/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..befe3892f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/haskell/haskell-regex-applicative/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +regex-applicative is a Haskell library for parsing using regular +expressions. Parsers can be built using Applicative interface. + +Perl programmers often use regular expressions for parsing, even if it is not +an appropriate tool for the job, because Perl has so good support for regexps. + +The opposite seems to be valid about Haskell programmers -- they use parsing +combinators (which recognize context-free or even context-sensitive grammars), +even when the language is actually regular! + +Hopefully, this library will improve the situation. + + +After uninstalling, run this command to unregister the package from +the ghc package database: ghc-pkg recache |