Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] string type class

2009-03-08 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Duncan Coutts wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:16 +, Chris Kuklewicz wrote: Not likely. I did define my own (private) class for regular expressions, to abstract over String, the ByteStrings, and Seq Char. But it is used in one place and is a wart that should be

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] string type class

2009-03-06 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:16 +, Chris Kuklewicz wrote: Matthew Pocock wrote: It seems every time I look at hackage there is yet another stringy datatype. For lots of apps, the particular stringy datatype you use matters for performance but not algorithmic reasons. Perhaps this is a