On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:01:37PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote: > > How is this a problem? > > > > If you're representing text, use 'text'. > > If you're representing a string of bytes, use 'bytestring'. > > If you want an "array" of values, think c++ and use 'vector'. > > the problem is that all those packages implement the exact same data > type from scratch, instead of re-using an implementation of a > general-purpose array internally. That is hardly desirable, nor is it > necessary.
Just to clarify for those on the sidelines, the issue is duplication of implementation details, rather than duplication of functionality? Tom _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
