David Leimbach wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com <mailto:johan.tib...@gmail.com>> wrote:On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Johann Höchtl <johann.hoec...@gmail.com <mailto: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.
What is a "Unicode byte"? Cheers, Jochem -- Jochem Berndsen | joc...@functor.nl _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
