Hi Tako,
The issues involved with String, ByteString, Text and a few related
libraries were discussed at great length recently in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-cafe/browse_thread/thread/52a21cf61ffb21b0/
Basically, Chars are 32 bit integers and Strings are represented as a
Hi Kevin,
thanks for the pointer, although I was aware of the thread and had followed
it quite closely, it was quite interesting.
But it never explained if and why String should be avoided, all I read is
test and decide depending on the circumstances, which in itself is good
advise, but I'd like
