On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:40:24PM +0100, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Dec 28, 2007 5:51 PM, Lihn, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Since regex is involved, it is specific to (Byte)String, not a generic
> > list.
>
> Oh, this gives me an interesting idea: making regular expressions more
> generic.
>
> Would not it be interesting and useful (but not really efficient) to
> have patterns something like:
>
> foo :: Eq a => a -> ...
> foo (_{4}'b') = ...Your idea has precedent, albeit only in an april fool's joke. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~partain/haskerl/partain-1.html (section 5, "(Polymorphic) Regular expressions") Stefan
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
