Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'text' library

Roman Leshchinskiy rl at cse.unsw.edu.au
Tue Oct 19 17:08:01 EDT 2010


On 19/10/2010, at 15:22, John Lato wrote:

> I think there's a significant difference between vector and text, namely a Vector is conceptually the same as a list/1D array, while a Text is not.  I think this difference is enough to warrant a break from the list API.

Are you sure? From its interface Text looks exactly like a list of Chars to me.

Roman




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