[Haskell-cafe] Re: Interest in helping w/ Haskell standard

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:20:24PM +0200,
 Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang at jeltsch.net> wrote 
 a message of 23 lines which said:

> By the way, it should be possible to handle regular expressions in
> an Haskell-like way.

If you like so, but as one more possibility, not as the only way.

> I always couldn't understand why one has to write regular
> expressions as strings

Because the language used inside these strings is standard,
multi-language, widely used and documented?