[Haskell-beginners] eval command?

[Alex Shearn]

Hey all - I've been trying to write an IRC bot following the guide on 
the wiki, and we (those of us on the channel) were trying to get it to 
evaluate commands.
So far, we have this for "eval" stuff, but is there anyway to specify a 
"parse in haskell" sort of thing?

[code]
-- Dispatch a command
eval :: String -> Net ()
eval "!endbot" = write "QUIT" ":Exiting" >> io (exitWith ExitSuccess)
eval x | "!haskbot " `isPrefixOf` x = privmsg (drop 9 x)
eval _ = return () -- ignore everything else
[/code]

is there anyway to do something like:

eval "!eval" `isPrefixOf` x = eval blah

?

if this isn't beginners' stuff, let me know, i'll repost to the main 
mailing list.

Many thanks,

Alex Shearn

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