On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Alexander Dunlap < alexander.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just have a question out of curiosity - why was the decision made to > have Data.Text, uvector, and ByteString all separate data structures, > rather than defining the string types in terms of uvector? > bytestring predates the other two libraries by several years. The underlying stream type for uvector and text are almost the same, so they could in principle be merged. There's a fair amount of duplication there, but uvector is in some ways more complicated and in others much less thorough than text. Merging them would be a lot of work!
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