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I think in the specific case of Haskell, parser combinator libraries like Parsec are so nice that it can be more convenient to use parser combinators than regex

• draegtun 12y ago
  Rebol is another example worth looking at. It doesn't come with regex at all instead it uses a parse dialect (an embedded Top-down parsing language). Some refs: - http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-15.html http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-15.html - http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/functions/parse.html http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/functions/parse.html - http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/parse-tutorial-r3.html http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/parse-tutorial-r3.html - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming/Language_Features/Parse https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming/Language_Fea... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_parsing_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_parsing_language