RE: [Haskell-cafe] Can we do better than duplicate APIs? [was: Data.CompactString 0.3]

2007-03-25 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
l.org | Cc: haskell@haskell.org | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Can we do better than duplicate APIs? [was: Data.CompactString 0.3] | | [sorry for the somewhat longer rant, you may want to skip to the more | technical questions at the end of the post] | | Twan van Laarhoven wrote: | > I would like to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can we do better than duplicate APIs? [was: Data.CompactString 0.3]

2007-03-24 Thread Robert Dockins
On Friday 23 March 2007 18:55, Benjamin Franksen wrote: > [sorry for the somewhat longer rant, you may want to skip to the more > technical questions at the end of the post] > > Twan van Laarhoven wrote: > > I would like to announce version 0.3 of my Data.CompactString library. > > Data.CompactStri

[Haskell-cafe] Can we do better than duplicate APIs? [was: Data.CompactString 0.3]

2007-03-23 Thread Benjamin Franksen
[sorry for the somewhat longer rant, you may want to skip to the more technical questions at the end of the post] Twan van Laarhoven wrote: > I would like to announce version 0.3 of my Data.CompactString library. > Data.CompactString is a wrapper around Data.ByteString that represents a > Unicod