Haskell Platform call for consensus: add 'text' package

[Ross Paterson]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:28:28AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> This is a call for consensus for the following proposal:
> 
>     http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals/text
> 
> Are there any unresolved concerns?
> 
>     Deadline: 2 weeks (Nov 21)

I share the concern that an API that closely mirrors Data.List, but
with a handful of exceptions where the names are changed, is less easy
to use than it could be.