bulatz: > Hello John, > > Thursday, October 20, 2005, 4:12:36 AM, you wrote: > > JM> FastString seems to be a misnomer for this library. > > JM> what it provides is a fast _byte array_ with a lot of useful > JM> operations, but it does not provide strings since it does not enforce > JM> character encodings in the type system, which would be vital for a real > JM> FastString library. In any case, just had to get that off my chest :) > > may be it can be named ByteArray? and then FastString.Latin1, > FastString.UTF8... will use its utilities > > also, all UTF8 utilities may be placed outside of FastString.UTF8 > module, because it can be used for something else > > btw, FastString is also a bit misnamed. it's really a CompactString. > ghc's FastString was named so, imho, just because they provided hashes > for fast string comparision
Well, it's a PackedString really, isn't it? I changed it to FastString after too many people grumbled about colliding with the existing PackedString. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
