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diff --git a/haskell/haskell-regex-applicative/README b/haskell/haskell-regex-applicative/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..befe3892f56f4 --- /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 |