Giuliano P Procida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
> [Substring stuff snipped]
> Were you thinking of something like:
>
> class Stringy foo where
> toString :: foo -> String
> someop :: foo -> foo -> foo
> ...
>
> and just use Stringy foo => foo instead of String everywhere?
>
> Or just having a special type for fast string manipulation.
Just the latter: there's no reason to have multiple implementations
that I can see.
> I would welcome either. However, there is a huge body of code that
> assumes strings are lists of chars.
Yes, obviously... this is for new programs (which people aren't writing
because of Haskell's inefficiency in dealing with strings).
--KW 8-)
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