> As a matter of pure speculation, how big an impact would it have if, in > the next "version" of Haskell, Strings were represented as opaque types > with appropriate functions to convert to and from [Char]? Would there be > rioting in the streets? > > Andrew Bromage
I would complain. I don't care much about efficiency (though it still bothers me that I don't have an answer yet to the memory leak I posted some time ago), and the easiness of dealing with strings as lists is quite important to me. Expliciting packing and unpacking would be an incovenience. Wojtek _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
