On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Yves Parès wrote: > If you just need to go back and forth from String to Text, why do you need > to be generic? pack and unpack from Data.Text do the job.
Always going through String or Text may (depending on what your underlying representation is) be less efficient than converting directly to String/Text. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
