On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Taru Karttunen <tar...@taruti.net> wrote:
> Hello > > It seems like a very common issue to have an API like: > > foo :: String -> Foo > fooBS :: ByteString -> Foo > fooLBS:: L.ByteString -> Foo > > is there currently a library that makes unifying them easy? > They cannot be completely unified. A sequence of Unicode characters (String) is not the same kind of thing as a sequence of bytes (ByteString). Going between the two requires an encoding. A shared abstraction would support a subset of operations that make sense on all sequences. Cheers, Johan
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