If the input is specified to be UTF-8, wouldn't it be better to call the method unpackUTF8 or something like that?
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Christian Siefkes > <christ...@siefkes.net> wrote: > > On 03/19/2012 04:53 PM, Johan Tibell wrote: > >> I've been thinking about this question as well. How about > >> > >> class IsString s where > >> unpackCString :: Ptr Word8 -> CSize -> s > > > > What's the Ptr Word8 supposed to contain? A UTF-8 encoded string? > > Yes. > > We could make a distinction between byte and Unicode literals and have: > > class IsBytes a where > unpackBytes :: Ptr Word8 -> Int -> a > > class IsText a where > unpackText :: Ptr Word8 -> Int -> a > > In the latter the caller guarantees that the passed in pointer points > to wellformed UTF-8 data. > > -- Johan > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime >
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