Re: String != [Char]

2012-03-23 Thread ARJANEN Loïc Jean David
this proposal will break many codebases (we shouldn't hope to apply all of list's syntax to this string type) should we apply it alone or wait until we have more other codebase-breakers to apply ? -- ARJANEN Loïc Jean David http://luigiscorner.wordpress.com --- "Computer science is no

Re: String != [Char]

2012-03-22 Thread ARJANEN Loïc Jean David
Le 22/03/2012 04:29, Greg Weber a écrit : This proposal seems fairly uncontroversial at the moment. I would really like it if someone more familiar with the proposal process can take this proposal up and help make sure it gets in the next batch. I can't even figure out how to create a wiki page f

Re: String != [Char]

2012-03-21 Thread ARJANEN Loïc Jean David
Le 20/03/2012 16:29, Tillmann Rendel a écrit : Hi, Thomas Schilling wrote: I agree that the language standard should not prescribe the implementation of a Text datatype. It should instead require an abstract data type (which may just be a newtype wrapper for [Char] in some implementations) and

Re: String != [Char]

2012-03-18 Thread ARJANEN Loïc Jean David
Le 17/03/2012 02:44, Greg Weber a écrit : the text library and Text data type have shown the worth in real world Haskell usage with GHC. I try to avoid String whenever possible, but I still have to deal with conversions and other issues. There is a lot of real work to be done to convert away from