RE: [Haskell-cafe] Sugestion for a basic Utf8 type.

2008-12-02 Thread Bayley, Alistair
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mauricio I would like to sugest a new basic type in Haskell. What if we had something like this (with any other quoting character): «Je ne parle pas français. Meu nome é Maurício. ¿Hablas español?» This would be of type

[Haskell-cafe] Sugestion for a basic Utf8 type.

2008-12-02 Thread Mauricio
Hi, I would like to sugest a new basic type in Haskell. What if we had something like this (with any other quoting character): «Je ne parle pas français. Meu nome é Maurício. ¿Hablas español?» This would be of type Utf8. I think now it is not a bad idea, since Haskell source code is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Sugestion for a basic Utf8 type.

2008-12-02 Thread Jason Dusek
Unlike native Strings, this would have the potential for a runtime parse error at every character. -- _jsn ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe