<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 16:16, Ian Lynagh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:igloo@earth.li">igloo@earth.li</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:50:10AM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote:<br>> Using list-based operations on Strings are almost always wrong<br>
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</div>Data.Text seems to think that many of them are worth reimplementing for<br>
Text. It looks like someone's systematically gone through Data.List.<br>
And in fact, very few functions there /don't/ look like they are<br>
directly equivalent to list functions.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was under the impression they have been very carefully designed to do the right thing with characters represented by multiple codepoints, which is something the String version *cannot* do. It would help if Bryan were involved with this discussion, though. (I'm cc:ing him on this.) Since the whole point of Data.Text is to handle stuff like this properly I would be surprised if your assertion that </div>
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<div class="im" style>> upcase :: String -> String<br>> upcase = map toUpper<br><br></div><span style>This is no more incorrect than</span><br style><span style> upcase = Data.Text.map toUpper</span><br style>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>is correct.</div><div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms<br>
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