[ haskell newbie alert ]
On 2004-09-20, Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Einar Karttunen wrote:
Size
Handling large amounts of text as haskell strings is currently not
possible as the representation (list of chars) is very inefficient.
Efficiency is
Can this not be handled in a nicer way by the compiler? What if the
compiler tried to allocate the lists in chunks? For example when dealing
with strings, why cant the compiler allocate the string as a fixed length
unit, terminated with a link to the next unit. (IE allow the atoms in the
list to
G'day all.
Quoting John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* (++) is both a list and a string concatenation operator
This could easily be handle by a typeclass.
* Pattern matching works well with strings (that's my #1 gripe about
strings in OCaml)
* Thanks to the laziness of Haskell lists,
