Ketil Malde wrote: > Haskell does have a standard representation for strings, namely [Char]. > Unfortunately, this sacrifices efficiency for elegance, which gives rise > to the plethora of libraries.
To have the default standard representation be one that works so poorly for many common everyday tasks such as mangling large chunks of XML is a large part of the problem. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
