On 1 September 2010 16:27, David Virebayre <dav.vire+hask...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/9/1 Tako Schotanus <t...@codejive.org>: >> As a Haskell noob I'm curious about this statement, is there something >> intrinsically wrong with String? > > String is just a linked list of Char which are unicode code points; > which is probably not the optimal way to store text. > For intensive use of text it takes too much memory, and/or it's not > fast enough. > > Sometimes I'd love if I could program using String and the compiler > would automatically convert that to Text, or Bytestrings, but of > course it's wishful thinking.
Well, there's OverloadedStrings for String literals... But the problem with automagic conversion would be one of encoding for Bytestrings at least. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
