<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 07:14, John Millikin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmillikin@gmail.com">jmillikin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> Don't forget, you can always improve the text library yourself. I love to receive<br>
> patches, requests for improvement, and bug reports.<br>
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Are there any areas in particular you'd like help with, for either<br>
library? I'm happy to assist any effort which will help reduce use of<br>
String.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As a Haskell noob I'm curious about this statement, is there something intrinsically wrong with String?</div><div>Or is it more a performance/resource problem when dealing with large amounts of text for example?</div>
<div>(Like having to use StringBuilder in Java if you want to avoid the penalty of repeated String allocations when simply concatenating for example)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> -Tako</div><div><br></div>
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