On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 08:38:23PM +0000, Thomas Schilling wrote: > On 24 March 2012 20:16, Ian Lynagh <ig...@earth.li> wrote: > > > >> Correctness > >> ========== > >> > >> Using list-based operations on Strings are almost always wrong > > > > Data.Text seems to think that many of them are worth reimplementing for > > Text. It looks like someone's systematically gone through Data.List. > > That's exactly what happened as part of the platform inclusion > process. In fact, there was quite a bit of bike shedding whether the > Text API should be compatible with the list API or not. In the end > the decision was made to add all the list functions even if that > encouraged running into unicode issues. I'm pretty sure you > participated in that discussion.
As far as I remember, a few functions were added to text and bytestring during that, but mostly the discussion was about naming. Even in the first 0.1 release of bytestring: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/text/0.1/doc/html/Data-Text.html there is a large amount of Data.List covered, e.g. map, transpose, foldl1', minimum, mapAccumR, groupBy. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
