On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Johann Höchtl <johann.hoec...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > My question or discussion point: Why not depreciate [Char] altogether > > and favour of lazy Bytestrings? > > A sequence of bytes is not the same thing as a sequence of Unicode > code points. If you want to replace String by something more efficient > have a look at Data.Text. > Slight correction. A sequence of bytes is exactly the same thing as a sequence of Unicode bytes when you use UTF8. > > -- Johan > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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