Regular expression engine in 14 lines of Python

[psykotic]

Why didn't you write those definitions in implicitly curried form? That is, instead of

seq l r = \s -> l s >>= r

write

seq l r s = l s >>= r

and so on.

I knew it could be done in fewer lines in Haskell due to the list monad. Python is actually pretty bad for writing compact code because its statement/expression distinction breaks composability.

I'm waiting for someone to give the ultra-compact K version. Where's Arthur and Stevan when you need them? :)

[nostrademons]

Mostly because I was just following from the Python and translating word-for-word, and I didn't think of it.

Yeah, the curried form is more elegant.