<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <herd>haskell</herd> <longdescription lang="en"> HaRP, or Haskell Regular Patterns, is a Haskell extension that extends the normal pattern matching facility with the power of regular expressions. This expressive power is highly useful in a wide range of areas, including text parsing and XML processing. Regular expression patterns in HaRP work over ordinary Haskell lists ([]) of arbitrary type. HaRP is implemented as a pre-processor to ordinary Haskell. </longdescription> </pkgmetadata>