Text in Haskell: a second proposal

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:40:42 -0700, Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org> pisze:

>> 1. Octets.
>> 2. C "char".
>> 3. Unicode code points.
>> 4. Unicode code values, useful only for UTF-16, which is seldom used.
>> 5. "What handles handle".

> I disagree, they should be:
> 
> 1. Word8
> 2. CChar
> 3. Char
> 4. Word16
> 5. Word8

I agree with that, except that Handles should handle Chars too.
It's very common to interpret files as sequences of characters,
it should be as easy as with current IO module.

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